Worth recommending for a Family with children, who are waiting under the bench window for the figure of the lovely Maiden from the window. The Bench House is located just behind the Neptune fountain from May 1 toOn October 1, at 13: 00, 15: 00, 17: 00 from the gable window of the tenement a maiden from the window appears every day The tenement is adjacent to the Artus Court. It is a building with a Gothic façade, a Renaissance portal, and a Baroque gable. From the Middle Ages until the early 18th century, patrician families lived here. Later it was merged with the Artus Court and from 1709 it was the seat of the bench courts. Inside its interior, known as the Gdañsk Sienna, you can see the decor of the vestibule of a patrician house from the 17th and 18th centuries. The New Bench House is famous for the appearance of one 'Lady of the Window', who is also seen in the form of a statue at the top of the building. The statue was designed by Ewa Topolan, an artist, sculptor hailing from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. The idea refers to the novel by Jadwiga Luszczewska - Deotyma (1834-1908), 'Panienka z okienka', published at the end of the 19th century in Warsaw. This,,, old-fashioned romance': was written after the 24-year-old Deotyma's trip with her parents along the Vistula River to Gdansk in 1858. The result was a fascination with our city and its history. In the novel, Deotyma included the color of Gdansk in an extremely evocative way, and above all the character of a young Danzig girl Hedwiga, looking out of the window of a magnificent tenement, in,, romansik' called the Amber House. Many of them, when visiting Gdansk, searched in vain for the Amber House and the window. As Prof. Jerzy Samp writes: "Many times, looking more closely at the tenements of Gdansk I tried to find the one and only, the truest round little window". However, the last sentences of the novel also encouraged to continue the search for the tenement house and the window: "And the inhabitants of Gdansk are famous for their respect for the monuments of the past, so who knows, maybe this keepsake is still with them? Maybe to this day the maiden from the window looks out there and waits longingly, and looks out whether once again a sailor from the Puck fleet will appear before her.'' The quoted sentences, closing the novel, sounding almost like the author's testament, at the same time contain a ready script and suggestions for further popularization - now more than 100 years old legend and creating a new material embodiment of it.
09.07.2015
