“Such a view can be seen only once in a century. When I saw it, I immediately went to take my camera.” – said Krzysztof Dackiewicz from the Wrocław University of Technology Museum. The view is indeed unusual.
The reason for dismantling the stairs at the entrance to the A-1 building is simple – the brick walls supporting the heavy stone treads made of granite crumbled a little since 1910. They must be renovated and levelled. The stone treads will be ground and settled again before the Wrocław University of Technology Day, i.e. 15th November 2013. Reportedly, nothing interesting has been found under the dismantled stairs but the sole view of them turns on the imagination of treasure and old mysteries searchers.
Between the revealed walls a small entrance to the room under the stairs in the cellars can be seen. In his “Wspomnienia o Straży Akademickiej Politechniki we Wrocławiu” (“Memories of the Academic Guard of Wrocław University of Technology”) of 1945, Prof. Zdzisław Samsonowicz wrote: “In the last room of the inspected flat we found a hidden door and behind it a room with one sloping wall created by the ceiling of the entrance stairs to the A-1 building at Norwida St. 1/3. There we could find things left reportedly by two German professors: blankets, clothes, gowns of Senate members, bed-clothes, bicycles, hunting guns, and many other things. After a few days a food storage room was also found with entrance located in the floor of the carpenter’s room, hidden under layers of shavings and sawdust. This was a great success that changed our lives and speeded up the reconstruction of the University.”
Who knows, maybe there are still such secret places in the old buildings of the University waiting to be discovered during a renovation?
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