Parts of the early architecture of Zabielai family house

Address: Kauno m. sav., Kauno m., Rotušės a. 10

The building takes up two narrow land plots (14.5-14.7 metres wide). There is a surviving cellar with two rooms and vaulted ceilings in the western part of the building, which most probably belonged to the town inhabitants and represents the late Gothic time period – turn of the 16th-17th century. This building also contained a sophisticated staircase – from the northeast corner of the cellar the spiral staircase installed inside the thick wall led to the ground floor; only a part of the staircase has survived. The building was reconstructed in the Renaissance time period in which it acquired an L-shaped plan. The wall facing the square was finished in dark plaster of grainy texture. In the 17th century the building belonged to Kaunas county standard-bearer (a military officer title of the LGD) Jan Zabiello (Jonas Zabiela).

Mindaugas Bertašius