Currently, the buildings located near Nemunas, on Šilelis Street, are being evaluated by the Department of Cultural Heritage (KPD), deciding whether they need to be included in the Register of Cultural Values.
The Alytus authorities hope to have a final assessment at the end of August.
As the representative of the municipality Aistė Kuniejienė told BNS, the city has received a request to demolish six buildings and one engineering structure located at the mentioned address.
As Alytus radio “FM99” announced, the “Parama” company plans to build apartment buildings on the plot.
“The request is at the stage of consideration, it has been sent to the responsible authorities for coordination. One of the coordinating institutions is the Alytus-Marijampole territorial department of the Department of Cultural Heritage”, informed A. Kuniejienė.
According to her, the authorities must submit their conclusions by August 22. After receiving the conclusions, the Alytus municipality administration will have to approve or reject the request within three working days.
“Currently, the buildings are not yet included in the list of cultural heritage objects, but they are included in the general plan of the city of Alytus in the inventory of immovable cultural heritage objects to be protected, not registered in the register”, noted A. Kuniejienė.
KPD representative Jūratė Mičiulienė told BNS that the data of the building was entered in the inventory of cultural heritage by a natural person, but the inclusion in this inventory does not provide protection to the object.
However, she emphasized that such protection can be provided by heritage conservators, who are currently assessing the buildings.
“In order to clarify all the data, to make sure of its historical and architectural value and to decide whether the building can be entered into the Register of Cultural Values by establishing its protection, the Evaluation Council is currently clarifying about it,” said the KPD representative.
“Until there are no conclusions of the Assessment Council regarding this building, KPD will not grant any permits for demolition,” added J. Mičiulienė.
The age is indicated by the documents and the structure of the masonry
The historian who recorded data about the building dating back to the second half of the 18th century in the inventory in June, Žygymantas Buržinskas, director of the Merkinė region museum, told BNS that he became interested in the object after discovering drawings in the Warsaw archive.
“No one has more systematized information about the Alytus manor. Digitized documents of the economy of Alytus from the archive of old acts in Warsaw appeared very recently”, said Ž. Burzhinsk.
“After seeing those drawings of the barrels, I wondered where they stood. I did a little research and it turned out that one of those walls is from that era,” noted the historian.
According to him, it is likely that the building on Šilelis Street is the remains of the Alytus royal economy bravura or farm building. The drawings show that the building had three floors with two buildings, it was rebuilt in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century.
Building age, Ž. According to Buržinskas, surviving documents and authentic masonry testify.
“Beneath the plaster, masonry dating from the middle to the second half of the 18th century can be seen, classicist elements characteristic of the second half of the 18th century are visible. There are cellars under the building which very likely date back to that period. The installation of vaults, the architecture says this,” said the historian.
He hopes that the building will be included among the protected cultural values, as well as by expanding the protection zone of the adjacent Alytus Manor.
“And then I would suggest that the developer and architects accept this as a fact and, after working very calmly, integrate the existing masonry into the project under development, creating an even more valuable object than the current standard apartment projects,” added Ž. Burzhinsk.
According to KPD, the Alytus economy was established in 1589, its administrative center was the Alytus manor homestead. The economy was controlled for more than 200 years by various state actors: LDK marshals, treasurers, swordsmen.
From the second half of the 16th century, the economies of Brasta-Kobrin, Gardin, Šiauliai and Mogilev also operated in the LDK. They were rented to state officials for part of the income that was allocated to the maintenance of the ruler of the Republic of the Two Peoples (ATR).
After the third division of ATR, the royal economy of Alytus was occupied by Prussia and Russia.
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2024-08-12 17:02:51
