THE PALACE OF TURKULL-

COMELLO
The Palace of Count Henryk Dzieduszycki, later the
Palace of Turkull-Comello, Comello Palace –
architectural monument built in the 1830s by the
architect Frederic Baumann. It is located in the
southeast part of Lviv on 50a Pekarska Street near the
Lychakiv Cemetery. The Palace is the only known Neo
Gothic building in the city and possesses some
characteristics of Venetian Gothic style that combines
the Gothic pointed arch and Byzantine-Moorish
influences.
The palace was reconstructed after the First World
War, which led to a change in the shape of the roof.
Over time, the picturesque garden with a pond, which
was once wildly popular among the aristocratic circles
of the Lviv region, also disappeared.
The former owners often held musical and literary
evenings, and now the rooms, converted into
auditoriums, serve as a place of knowledge.

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE
The palace was built in the «Venetian Neo-Gothic» style,
unusual for Lviv. Interestingly, from the road, the
building looks quite ordinary, however, all its beauty
lies on the other side.

The palace is two-story, made of brick and plastered. On

the right side, there's a two-story annex attached to the
main building. The facade from Pekarska Street is
symmetrical, accentuated by a central risalite, and
divided by an inter-floor cornice.
The name variability of the palace is explained by the
fact that the building itself was in the ownership of
The windows on the first floor are rectangular, on the
different venerable families such as Didushytski,
second, the arrow-shaped form of their tops alternates
Comello, Turkulls, Poletyli, Batycki etc.
with rectangular ones. The pointed windows of the

HISTORY
risalite are separated by pilasters and, like the side
windows, are decorated with pinnacles.

The palace was built in the 1830s (in 1840-1843

according to some resources) based on the Venetian
Gothic models for Count Henryk Severyn Dzieduszycki
(after 1842 the building was governed by his widow
Theodosia Dzieduszycka). As Mieczysław Orlovic
describes, in the middle of the 19th century, when
Countess Felicia Comello (daughter of Count Tadeusz
Turkula) owned the palace, her estate was covered with
tile and looked like a real suburban estate.

In the 20s and 30s of the 20th century, it belonged to the

Batycki family, from which the first Miss Polonia (1930)
actress Sofia Batycka (pol. Zofia Batycka) came. Since
1937, the palace has been at the disposal of the Lviv
Academy of Veterinary Medicine. Today, it is home to
educational building No. 3 of the Stepan Hzytsky Lviv
National University of Veterinary Medicine and
Biotechnology.
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TURKULL-COMELLO

In the central risal part, there is a balcony supported by

columns adorned with Gothic capitals, which are
connected by pointed arches.

The roof has four slopes, is hipped, and features dormer

windows, all covered with sheet metal.