{"id":1209,"date":"2021-06-12T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2021-06-12T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T22:01:09","slug":"jan-de-witte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/12\/jan-de-witte\/","title":{"rendered":"JAN DE WITTE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jan de Witte<\/strong>&nbsp;(1709-1785) was a Polish military engineer and architect of Dutch descent. The author of, among others, the Dominican church in Lw\u00f3w (modern Lviv, Ukraine) and the Carmelite monastery in Berdycz\u00f3w (modern Berdychiv, Ukraine), he was also the military commandant of the fortress at Kamieniec Podolski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little is known of his early life. He appeared in history already as a fully developed architect. Probably native to Lw\u00f3w, among his first projects were the Sapieha family palace at Kopernika street and Lubomirski palace at the old town market. In 1739 he authored the Carmelite church in Berdycz\u00f3w and in 1744 &#8211; the Dominican church in Lw\u00f3w. At the same time he followed a military career within the Army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Stationed at Kamieniec Podolski as an officer of the Corps of Artillery, he also worked on reconstruction and expansion of the old fortress. Among his projects there are the new barracks and the commandants&#8217; residence, dubbed &#8220;de Witte&#8217;s Garden&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan de Witte&nbsp;(1709-1785) was a Polish military engineer and architect of Dutch descent. The author of, among others, the Dominican church in Lw\u00f3w (modern Lviv, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}