Dom przy ul. Lwowskiej – pierwsze wadowickie mieszkanie rodziny Emilii i Karola Wojtyłów w latach 1913-1914
The house at Lwowska Street in Wadowice – the first apartment of the Emilia and Karol Wojtyła’s family in 1913-1914

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article was to establish the first place of residence of the Karol and Emilia Wojtyła family in Wadowice. The primary sources for this study were materials held in the state archives, the Wadowice local government units, church archives and state institutions. A comparison of the contents of the cadastral map and the protocols of building and land parcels - documents found in the resources of the State Archive in Bielsko-Biała and the National Archive in Cracow-was of a decisive importance. Source analysis has led to the conclusion that the house in which the Wojtyla rented a flat was built between 1901 and 1911 by Emilia Polony, the grandmother of Professor Anna Polony. It exists to this day and is located next to the General Leopold Okulicki roundabout in Wadowice (ul. Lwowska 103). The building was located on the outskirts of the city, in a floodplain, in the immediate vicinity of two railway lines. It was one of the typical buildings of the old low-rise buildings of Wadowice. Certainly, the rent, for renting a flat there, was not high and was not beyond the financial capacity of Karol Wojtyla, an accounting sub-official. The Wojtyła lived there until November 1914, when they had to leave Wadowice due to the evacuation of military officials employed by the District Complementary Command (Ergänzungsbezirkskommando) to Moravia.

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