Un reper în istoria și evoluția străzii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Craiova: metocul Episcopiei Râmnicului
A Mark in the History and Evolution of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Street in Craiova: The Church Subordinated to the Bishopric of Râmnic

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on an essential and little-known aspect of the urban history of Craiova. Specifically, it is one of the important landmarks of its historical topography, whose evolution has known three stages: one represented by the Gănescu church, the other by the Palace of Justice, and the third by the University of Craiova (the last two stages being related to the same building which has changed its destination). Our text is dedicated to the analysis of the first stage that helps us understand the importance of the place, its connection with local urban history, the history of its local elites of the eighteenth century, but also with the history of other important institutions essential for the nineteenth century (the Bishopric of Râmnic). We were interested in the different historical brands that characterized the evolution of this place, important not only for the history of Ulița Episcopiei / Alexandru Ioan Cuza street. We have considered the various significant historical elements, including the local community, whose urban development has inevitably left its mark on place changes. Although its centrality has remained unchanged, its historical form has changed following a temporality that forced the abandonment of the church of an old boyar family, an episcopal residence, in favour of a modern institution, according to an urban plan that gave a modern face to Craiova of the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. As in other cases in Romanian urban history, after the physical disappearance of the building, the old toponyms of the eighteenth century, ‘Biserica Gănescu’, ‘Mânăstirea Episcopiei’ hardly or not at all survived in the collective memory, the first being recovered and publicly remembered today by a commemorative plaque on the wall of the current university.

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