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2009-12-10 Charming Bojary

‘Bojary’ housing estate in Bialystok is an unusual place, which with its special appearance more resembles an enchanting village of Podlasie than a city. Wooden and brick, one-storey bungalows surrounded by trees – by some regarded as a unique building, by others as obsolete. Place which should be demolished and replaced by impressive architecture.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What to do with this place?- the question has already been raised during 70ies.  No firm decisions and effective legal solutions, ensuring the protection of settlement, led to a situation in which more than a hundred year old house stands next to a colorful, multi-storey block. The oldest buildings were replaced by new houses, significantly different from the style of its surrounding.\

 

Preserved, though in rudimentary form Bojar buildings – wooden houses with pointed roofs, and low-embedded windows - are still a piece of history of Białystok and its inhabitants.

 

The village of Bojary (the name comes from the people living in the area-boyars) was firstly mentioned in a King John Casimir’s privilege of 15 January 1661. He awarded tithes of wheat and oats, inter alia, from this village, to the church of Bialystok. Bojary survived the Second World War. It has become a place of residence of the persons forced to abandon the village for the city.

 

Bojary because of its location- right next to the downtown and main transportation roads, the greenery surrounding it- have become an attractive area for building projects. But - although the town has issued 10 sites for sale, buyers did not lined up in the queue. Since not everything can be built here.

 

A plan for the district adopted in 2007 by the municipality council requires strict protection of wooden buildings, and orders to comply with the requirements. There can not be any siding on the facade and roofs must be covered with ceramic tiles. Houses have to be the same as before.

 

Despite these limitations, a buyer who appreciated the charm of this place has been found. For more than 150 thousand PLN one of the parcels, put up for the tender, has been bought by Ms Iwona Zalewska. She is not scared of the fact that her house has to be built in accordance with the guidelines of the planners. She spent her childhood in a similar neighborhood, and now she wants to live in such a building again.

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