Prądnik Czerwony housing estate in Kraków

Part of the Kraków photography series taken by Leszek Dziedzic in the late 1970s; Dobrego Pasterza Street, Prądnik Czerwony housing estate, Kraków. Designed by Anna Basista, the estate was built between 1975 and 1986. Made of precast concrete elements, the residential large panel system (LPS) buildings were erected on the land that once was a garden. It belonged to a local folwark, a serfdom-dependent agricultural enterprise operated by the Dominican Order (voivode Jan Ligęza granted the land to the monks in 1418). In the 1950s, as a result of nationalisation, the followers of Saint Dominic lost their properties in Prądnik. The name of Majora Street refers to Jakub Major (1872–1948) – a local peasant, social activist, councillor, and the last wójt (the most senior representative of the government) of Prądnik Czerwony, which became part of Kraków as late as 1941. Major lived in Dobrego Pasterza Street, where – using his own private resources – he was instrumental in laying the first sidewalk there. In the interwar period (1918–1939), he was a keen benefactor, who contributed to charitable causes and assisted impoverished children.