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Polish Theatre, Wrocław

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Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu
Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu

The Polish Theatre in Wrocław (Polish: Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu) is one of the theatres in Wrocław, Poland. The Polish Theatre in Wrocław has three stages: Small Stage on 28 Świdnicka Street, “Na Świebodzkim” Stage, situated inside Świebodzki railway station's building at 20c Orląt Lwowskich Square, and Jerzy Grzegorzewski Stage located in the Theatre's main building at 3 Zapolska Street. The main building, the result of the endeavors of a Wrocław merchant: Paul Auerbach, was designed by Berlin architect: Walter Hentschel and completed in 1909. For the standards of the time it was both very functional and technically advanced. In the early 1930s, the theatre, called Schauspielhaus in German, was the newest and, with 1736 seats, also the biggest stage in Wroclaw. Since its beginning, the theatre functioned as a musical theatre, where mostly operetta was staged. Towards the end of World War Two the theatre's building was partly damaged. The theatre's present official name is The Polish Theatre in Wrocław. The building on Zapolska Street was reconstructed in 1950, and in the same year, on February 20, it held its first premiere. The play was: A Thousand Brave Men and was written by architect Jan Rojewski. It was a socialist propagandist play about workers struggling to repair the war damage in Polish cities. For Wrocław's audience it was a completely new type of modern drama. The theatre was in use until 1994, when during the night of January 18 a fire broke out and destroyed the auditorium. The theatre was once again rebuilt, this time according to the design of Witold Jackiewicz. The play staged during the opening ceremony on May 20, 1996 was Wroclaw Improvisations, directed by Andrzej Wajda himself.

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Wrocław Świebodzki railway station
Wrocław Świebodzki railway station

Wrocław Świebodzki (German: Breslau Freiburger) is a disused railway station in the Przedmieście Świdnickie district of the city of Wrocław, within the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. Opened by the Wrocław-Świdnica-Świebodzice Railway Company in 1843, it was one of the two first railway stations to open in Wrocław (after Wrocław Górnośląski), historically serving as the eastern termini of the Silesian Mountain Railway (now the Wrocław Świebodzki–Zgorzelec railway). Historically, Wrocław Świebodzki was at the site of the busiest railway junction in Wrocław, situated directly adjacent to two major termini; Wrocław Marchijsko-Dolnośląski of the Berlin–Wrocław railway, and Wrocław Miejski Prawego Brzegu Odry of the Oder Right Bank Railway Company. It was by the early 20th century when both railway stations closed, only increasing rail traffic for Świebodzki and the newly built Wrocław Główny. During the station's operation, it served as the terminus of all trains arriving from the west, such via Görlitz, Węgliniec, Żagań, and Jelenia Góra. Regular passenger trains were withdrawn in 1991. Świebodzki still remained operational to non-regular service trains until 1993, however this was mostly for special services such as rail shows. Since the station's closure, it has been leased for several purposes, most notably hosting the weekly Świebodzki flea market, the largest in Wrocław. As rail traffic rapidly increased in Wrocław Główny since the 2000s, several plans and proposals have emerged over the years (first in 2007) for the revitalisation or redevelopment of Świebodzki, in the aim of reducing congestion at Wrocław Główny. After the station joined the Kolej+ programme in 2023, Świebodzki is set to reopen in 2029. Works are set to commence in 2027.