Badeni Palace

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Street side of the palace (left) in the interwar period. At that time court of appeal. In the background the Krasiński Palace
View of Krasiński Square from the north-west, on the left the field cathedral of the Polish Army , on the right the former buildings of the customs station, which were later replaced by the Badeni Palace
The Krasiński Square at the turn of the century, on the left edge of the picture the portico of the Badeni Palace

The Badeni Palace (Polish: Pałac Badenich ) was located on Warsaw's Krasiński Square in the inner city district . The palace, largely destroyed in World War II , was never rebuilt. Today there is a green area partly planted with trees in its place.

history

The building was built from 1837 to 1838 by the architect Andrzej Gołoński in the classicist style for Count Ignacy Badeni. The address at that time was Plac Krasiński 3 . The building bordered the older Krasiński Palace in the northwest and ran diagonally from here towards the intersection of Ulica Miodowa and Ulica Długa streets . The front was oriented towards Krasiński Square, behind the object was the rear of the Radziwiłł Palace, also older, on the Długa . The buildings that had stood here until then, the remains of a customs house and a guardhouse, were demolished or partially integrated into the new building.

In the second half of the 19th century the palace housed the Museum of Industry and Agriculture (Polish: Muzeum Przemysłu i Rolnictwa ). From 1878 painting and drawing courses with models were offered in the palace. The painter Icek Kantower exhibited pictures in the portico. In the inter-war period, the court of appeal (Polish: Sąd Apelacyjny ) was housed in the building. During the Warsaw Uprising , the palace was destroyed in 1944. Individual remains of the wall stood until the 1950s, when it was finally decided not to rebuild the palace.

architecture

The classicist structure was divided into 21 window axes on the front facade . Here (towards the square) of having possessed rustication designed palace via a central portico and two side projections . The portico, which protruded far from the core structure and was decorated with wreaths and acroterions, consisted of six Ionic columns and a triangular pediment , the tympanum of which contained a bas-relief ("Ascent to Olympus") by Paweł Maliński, which themed the psyche . The location of the palace was determined by the square designed by Enrico Marconi .

References and comments

  1. ↑ Ignacy Badeni (1786-1859) was a Polish politician and writer with an Austrian title of count (1845)
  2. ↑ Paweł Maliński (1790-1853) was a Polish sculptor and freemason
  3. ↑ according to Jerzy S. Majewski, Pałac Badenich, Plac Krasińskich 3 at Gazeta Wyborcza.pl from July 31, 2009 (in Polish)

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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 56 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 18 ″  E