TENEMENT HOUSE IN OPOLE

The tenement house at ul. św. Wojciecha 9 in Opole is owned by the Museum of Opole Silesia and showcases what townspeople's interiors looked like between 1890 and 1960.

Visitors can admire the solutions used by the house's designer, who created a two-storey building with an attic and six small two-room flats with an area of about 35 m² (two flats on each floor) on a narrow plot of land. In 1926, the homeowner created an additional flat in the attic. The kitchen rooms received large balcony windows overlooking the staircase, so that light from the staircase skylight, located in the middle of the passageway, could also reach these rooms. Two toilets designed for all residents of the house have been installed on the landing. Water sinks were placed in the middle alcoves on each floor. Each flat also included a small alcove by the front door, where tenants usually placed small pantries. The house was distinguished by its rich facade – it had a Bossage ground floor, upper floors covered with facing bricks of varying colours and windows decorated with mascarons. There are five flats here, each in the style that prevailed in furniture design between 1890 and 1965.

Each flat is an individual space, whose character is a reflection of its owner's financial status, needs, tastes, preferences and fashion influences.

Apart from furniture, kitchen equipment and knick-knacks that created the atmosphere of the home, various methods of heating rooms are presented – tiled stoves and cast iron heaters. Equipment for maintaining hygiene and devices used for

food preparation are also on display. The attic houses an exhibition of old laundry and drying equipment.