Hundreds of people have protested in Kraków’s Kazimierz district against plans to evict residents and businesses from a set of historic church-owned buildings in order to redevelop them into a luxury hotel.
The demonstration, outside the church where the order that owns the three tenement houses is based, was co-organised by local left-wing MP Daria Gosek-Popiołek and also attended by Kraków’s mayor, Aleksander Miszalski, who promised to take action.
Protesters displayed banners reading “No to gentrification” and “Kazimierz for locals”. They created mock death notices for the businesses being evicted, which include many of the shabby-chic bars, boutiques and galleries for which the district is known, such as Eszeweria, a pub that is an iconic part of Kazimierz’s thriving nightlife.
Hundreds protest evictions from church-owned properties to develop hotel in historic Kraków district
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This famous institution operated on the principle of plunder. The Church said “give it to me!”, and the authorities gave without a murmur. Land, schools, hospitals. Without the right to vote of the interested parties, without the right to appeal. It does not take any legal culture to immediately notice the thieving construction of this Bolshevik “institution”, which insults all the principles of the rule of law. This monstrous fetus of the dying commune and the hungry church invited embezzlement, and indeed the tip of the iceberg of these frauds, which is revealed by the press, may astonish many a cynic.
Jan Hartman on the Property Commission for the Catholic Church
If the hotel will pay taxes it’s a positive development for the city
Church will do everything for money, even ally with Hitler, oh wait. They did that.
The loss of Eszeweria in particular would be devastating. It’s simply *the* most perfect Kraków bar – and the garden is just 💦
Not to not pick but my brother on law is a priest in Krakow, and the church doesn’t own this property it’s owned by a specific religious order. I understand that some people don’t see a difference but there is one. The developers are pushing really hard to get this deal done, so it’s not as easy as just it’s the churches fault.