The European Commission officially confirmed that Kaunas, famous for its unique modernist architecture of the interwar period, will be awarded the European Heritage Label.
The marked places or objects will be allowed to use the table with a European Heritage logo and they will be included into EU strategy for publicizing and promoting their existence, dedicated to European Heritage Label. Finally, winners will participate in the annual conference of the object managers, where they will be able to make contacts with colleagues and expand their knowledge.
European Heritage Label shooting team has visited Kaunas for the last two days. They captured the most important objects in the interwar period including Kaunas Garrison Officer's Club, Central Post Office, Christ's Resurrection Church, Vytautas the Great War Museum and so on. International group of experts during 2014 have valued 36 applications for the national level selected by the European Commission and the EU Member States that joined the European Heritage Label. After long deliberations, a report recommended European Commission to extend the label to 16 places and objects among them Kaunas City municipality.
Kaunas modernism was formed in the fourth decade of the last century, when the city was the temporary capital of Lithuania, Poland occupied Vilnius region. The town is a few tens of exceptional examples of modernist architecture. The first Lithuanian modernist buildings of the Central Post Office, built in 1930-1931. The Architecture and Urbanism Research Centre says the European interwar modernism ideas were brought to Lithuania by several Lithuanian architects who studied abroad. In Lithuania, modernistic architecture developed into its own specific form and is therefore called the Kaunas school of architecture.
The marked places or objects will be allowed to use the table with a European Heritage logo and they will be included into EU strategy for publicizing and promoting their existence, dedicated to European Heritage Label. Finally, winners will participate in the annual conference of the object managers, where they will be able to make contacts with colleagues and expand their knowledge.
Cultural Heritage object |
Year of Construction |
Architect |
Address |
Central Post Office |
1931 |
Feliksas Vizbaras |
Laisvės al. 102 |
Former office of Pažanga company |
1931–1934 |
Feliksas Vizbaras |
Laisvės al. 53 |
Former headquarter of milk processing company Pienocentras |
1931–1934 |
Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis |
Laisvės al. 55 / S. Daukanto g. 18 |
Kaunas County Police Headquarters (former County government) |
1932–1933 |
Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis |
Laisvės al. 14 / Vytauto pr. 91 |
KTU Faculty of Chemical Technology (former Military Research Laboratory) |
1933–1937 |
Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis |
Radvilėnų pl. 19 |
Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Trades |
1937–1938 |
Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis |
K. Donelaičio g. 8 |
Lithuanian Sports University (former Physical Education Building) |
1933–1934 |
Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis |
Sporto g. 6 |
Sports Hall |
1938–1939 |
Anatolijus Rozenbliumas |
Perkūno al. 5 |
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Main building (former VMU Medical faculty) |
1931–1933 |
Vladimiras Dubeneckis |
A. Mickevičiaus g. 9 |
Garrison Officers’ Club |
1931–1937 |
Stasys Kudokas, Elmar Lohk, Herbert Johanson, Vladimiras Dubeneckis, Jonas Kriščiukaitis, Kazys Kriščiukaitis, Mykolas Songaila, Jonas Kova-Kovalskis |
A. Mickevičiaus g. 19 |
Vytautas the Great War Museum and M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art |
1929–1936 |
Vladimiras Dubeneckis, Karolis Reisonas, Kazimieras Kriščiukaitis |
K. Donelaičio g. 64 / V. Putvinskio g. 55 |
Kaunas City Municipality (former Savings Bank) |
1938–1940 |
Arnas Funkas, Bronius Elsbergas |
Laisvės al. 96 / L. Sapiegos g. 2 |
Žaliakalnis funicular |
1931–1933 |
- |
Aušros g. 6 |
Aleksotas funicular |
1935 |
- |
Amerikos lietuvių g. 6 |
KTU Central building (former Agriculture bank) |
1933–1935 |
Karolis Reisonas, |
K. Donelaičio g. 73 / Vienybės a. |
Christ's Resurrection Basilica |
1933–1940 |
Karolis Reisonas |
|
Kaunas Sacred Heart of Jesus (Šančiai) Church |
1938 |
Algirdas Šalkauskis, Adolfas Netyksa, Pranas Markūnas |
A. Juozapavičiaus pr. 60 |
Jonas Jablonskis Gymnasium (former Elementary School) |
1930–1931 |
Antanas Jokimas |
Aušros g. 3 / Žemaičių g. |
KTU Vaižgantas Progymnasium (former Šančiai gymnasium) |
1938 |
Stasys Kudokas |
Skuodo g. 27 / Servitutų g. 72 |
Romuva Cinema |
1938–1940 |
Nikolajus Mačiulskis |
Laisvės al. 54 |
Former Pasaka Cinema |
1939–1940 |
Jokūbas Rabinavičius, Juozas Segalauskas, M. Laurinavičiūtė |
Savanorių pr. 124 |
Residential house Maironio g. 13 |
1930–1931 |
Vytautas Landsbergis - Žemkalnis |
|
Former Beras Goldbergas residential house |
1937 |
Volfas Brūnas |
V. Putvinskio g. 52 |
Former doctor Nadiežda Nagornienė residential house |
1934 |
Adolfas Netyksa |
V. Putvinskio g. 54 |
Former Vatican’s nunciature |
1931 |
Vytautas Landsbergis - Žemkalnis |
V. Putvinskio g. 56 |
Former lawyer’s Kazimieras Škėma house |
1932–1933 |
Bronius Elsbergas, Klaudijus Duš-Dušauskas |
V. Putvinskio g. 60 |
Former Dr. Antanas Gylys private hospital |
1933 |
Leonas Ritas |
V. Putvinskio g. 62 |
Former artist A. Žmuidzinavičius’ residential house |
1928 |
Vytautas Landsbergis - Žemkalnis |
V. Putvinskio g. 64 |
Former Mayor’s Jonas Vileišis house |
1930 |
Aleksandras Gordevičius |
V. Putvinskio g. 68 |
Former engineer’s Antanas Gravrogkas residential house |
1932 |
Edmundas Frykas |
V. Putvinskio g. 70 |
Former Vincas and Ona Tercijonai residential house |
1936 |
Bronius Elsbergas |
V. Putvinskio g. 72 |
Residential house Laisvės al. 3 |
1933 |
Stasys Kudokas |
Laisvės al. 3 |
Architect Stasys Kudokas residential house – villa |
1937 |
Stasys Kudokas |
V. Mykolaičio-Putino g. 11 |
Gyvenamasis namas Vaidilutės g. 3 |
1938 |
Stasys Kudokas |
Vaidilutės g. 3 |
Kaunas Art Gymnasium (former Minister Juozas Tūbelis villa) |
1933 |
Feliksas Vizbaras |
Dainavos g. 1 |
Former residential house |
1932 |
Feliksas Vizbaras |
Kęstučio g. 38 |
Former Mikas Grodzenskis’ residential house |
1929 |
Edmundas Frykas, Mikas Grodzenskis |
K. Donelaičio g. 17 |
Former Aleksandra Iljinienė residential house |
1933 |
Arnas Funkas |
K. Donelaičio g. 19 |
Residential house Laisvės al. 69 |
1929–1930 |
- |
Laisvės al. 69 |
Residential house L. Sapiegos g. 4 |
1935 |
Leiba Zimanas, Isaokas Trakmanas |
L. Sapiegos g. 4 |
Residential house Vydūno al. 59 |
1934 |
Vladimiras Kopylovas |
Vydūno al. 59 |
Residential house Vytauto pr. 30 |
1930–1931 |
Vladimiras Dubeneckis |
Vytauto pr. 30 |
Former Butas cooperative |
1931–1932 |
Jonas Kriščiukaitis |
Trakų g. 5 |
Former Tulpė cooperative |
1925–1926 |
Antanas Macijauskas |
A. Mickevičiaus g. 15 |