Scultetus Tenement House

The Scultetus (Scholz) Tenement House - a historic tenement house on Blessed Virgin Mary Street in Legnica, near the Piast Gallery.

The Renaissance building was built at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The two-zone^[1] sgraffito decoration on the façade comes from 1611 and presents geometric and architectural elements, as well as personifications of seven liberated arts - Grammar, Dialectics, Rhetoric, Music, Arithmetic, Astronomy and Geometry. The author of the decoration was master Giovanni together with his student - both of them are also included in the sgraffito. The work was covered with plaster at the end of the 19th century. In 1972 it was unveiled during conservation works.^[2] Originally the entire building was covered in sgraffito, however, only its upper part survived.^[1] In 2005–2006, the building was renovated with the financial support of the Erika Simon Foundation.^[2]

The tenement house was owned by Johann Scultetus (Hans Scholz) - a Legnica-based humanist, the rector of the school at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul since 1611.^[1] Currently the building is the seat of the Sports and Recreation Center. The city Tourist Information also has its office here.^[2]