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53 – Adolf Grosmann House, Bottova no. 3

Turistická informačná tabuľka č. 53 s QR kódom na Grossmannovom dome, Bottova ul.
(Foto: 9. 3. 2014)

Na rohu Bottovej On the corner of Bottova and Makovického streets there is a functionalist building, which was built by Žilina businessman Adolf Grosmann. However, the house is known to old locals as "Spitzer house" because Dr Šimon Spitzer, Grosmann’s son-in-law, practiced medicine and lived here. He was a well-known doctor in the town at the time of the First Czechoslovak Republic and he also worked as a railway doctor. His wife Alžbeta, nee Grosmannová, was a paediatrician.
Both often treated and nursed the poor inhabitants of the town for free and people today still recall this. Originally, before 1928, there were two two-storey Renaissance houses – probably built after the town fire of 1521 - on the land the building currently stands on. There was a butcher's guild slaughterhouse in one, which then moved in the 20th century to what is now Republic Street to near the former steam electric power station. Members of the butcher's guild owned the building until 1927, when it was sold to Grosmann, who also bought the neighbouring Rosenfeld house.
Both houses were demolished and in their place arose a building that was added to Žilina’s listed buildings as a beautiful functionalist building. The house was designed by a reputable Žilina architect, Jozef Zweigenthal, who was born in Tešín in 1895.
He gained design experience in Cairo, Paris and Vienna and worked in Žilina from the early 1920s onwards. His most notable buildings include family houses and rental properties such as Gross house on present-today Legionárska Street in particular, but also the Porges house on Dlabačová Street near the bus station. In 1947 he designed the 5.5m high pyramid-shaped black Swedish granite Monument to Žilina’s Holocaust victims in the ceremonial hall of the Jewish cemetery and other buildings.

Source: Mgr. Jozef Moravčík, Mgr. Peter Štanský. Text prevzatý z webovej stránky TIK Žilina (kliknite): www.tikzilina.eu.