Belvedere (Warsaw)
| Belvedere | ||
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 Main facade |
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| Creation time : | 1660 | |
| Castle type : | Palace | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 12 '47.3 " N , 21 ° 1' 39.6" E | |
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The Warsaw Belvedere (Polish : Pałac Belweder ) is an originally baroque palace, which was rebuilt in 1818 in the classicist style. It is the residence of the Polish President. The palace is located in Warsaw on a hill over an artificial pond on the western edge of Łazienki Park at the transition from Ujazdowski avenues to Ulica Belwederska . The Belvedere served as a model for hundreds of Polish small nobility palaces.
history
The palace was built in 1660. In 1767 it was acquired by Stanisław August Poniatowski , who was elected King of Poland a year later. Jan Kubicki rebuilt the palace in the classicist style at that time. From 1817 to 1830 the Belvedere served as the private palace of the Russian governor, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich Romanov , the brother of the tsar . After that it was one of the tsar's residences in Congress Poland . The insurgents of the November Uprising stormed it on the evening of November 29, 1830, coming from the ensign school, also located in Łazienki Park. Konstantin Romanov managed to flee, but this triggered the uprising that lasted over a year.
Marshal Józef Piłsudski lived here from 1918 to 1921 and from 1926 to 1935 . In the interwar period until 1926, the Belvedere served as the seat of the Polish presidents ( Gabriel Narutowicz , Stanisław Wojciechowski ). During the German occupation from 1939 to 1945 it was the seat of the Nazi governor of Warsaw, Ludwig Fischer , and underwent major renovations of the interior. In the post-war period, the Belvedere was the official seat of the State Council . From 1989 to 1994 it served the Polish presidents ( Wojciech Jaruzelski , Lech Wałęsa ) as a residence again. After Walesa because of the loud bus traffic as well as the more modest offer of residential premises (Wałęsa has eight children, of whom six underage at the beginning of his Präsidentur) in the presidential palace had moved and Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Lech Kaczynski lived there, took advantage of Bronislaw Komorowski , the Belvedere again as Presidential residence. In the meantime there was a museum about Józef Piłsudski in the building.
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The Polish Belvedere vodka was named after the Belvedere Palace in Warsaw , and the picture on the bottle also shows this palace.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Rzeczpospolita of September 9, 2010.