Bathrooms in the Polish town house in the 19th century and until the Second World War Cover Image

Łazienki w polskich kamienicach w XIX wieku i do II wojny światowej
Bathrooms in the Polish town house in the 19th century and until the Second World War

Author(s): Anna Maj
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: introduction of the age and sanitary installations problem; bathrooms in XVIII c.; bathrooms in XIX c.; location and function of bathroom

Summary/Abstract: A significant changes societal, political and technological in the England started in the second half of XVIII century, in the rest Europe just since XIX century beginning. Here the barrier was still old, backward mentality of society. In the second half of XIX century in the polish town house was created same kind of space which was used only to take care of the hygiene – bathroom. From this convenience were to make use only richest residents of cites. On the all of polish territory were progressed the waterworks. At the turn of XIX and XX century dynamic progress of the middle class, which were used of technological novelty. At the 20 years of XX century were starting modern architecture, were the bathrooms were already a standard.

  • Issue Year: 61/2013
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 143-158
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish