Blank palace
| Palais Blank | ||
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 Main facade |
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| Creation time : | 1762 | |
| Castle type : | Palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 14 '41.8 " N , 21 ° 0' 36.9" E | |
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The Blank Palace (Polish: Pałac Blanka) in Warsaw is named after the temporary owner, the Polish banker Piotr Blank . The late Baroque palace with echoes of Rococo and Classicism is located on the north side of the Theater Square (Plac Teatralny) in Warsaw's inner-city district . Today the seat of the Warsaw Monument Protection Office (Polish: Konserwator Zabytków) and departments of the Ministry of Sports and Tourism (Polish: Ministerstwo Sportu i Turystyki) are located here .
history
The two-storey palace is now at Ulica Senatorska 14 (formerly 34). The building ensemble consists of a central structure with one of a triangular gable winning Mittelrisaliten , surrounding the courtyard, likewise two-storey, but smaller buildings and an opposing the main building central gateway to the theater space. The east front of the Great Theater is only around 100 meters away. Small Nowy Przejazd Street runs along the eastern flank, and the back of the Dembiński Palace is on the opposite side . To the west of the small palace is directly connected to the Jabłonowski Palace, which was reconstructed between 1995 and 1997 and is now used as a bank .
The Blank Palace was built between 1762 and 1764 by Szymon Bogumił Zug for Filip Nereusz Szaniawski, the starost of Kąkolewnica. The composition scheme of the ensemble corresponded to that of the Parisian suburban residences of the 18th century. In 1776 Antoni Aleksander Soldenhoff, an army general of the Kingdom of Poland, bought the building, which he sold again a year later.
The heyday under Piotr Blank
From 1777 to 1797 Piotr Blank was the owner of the palace. He expanded it inside - again under Zug -, redesigned the outer facade in part in the classical style and added the entrance gate. The stairwell and shell hall on the bel étage have been preserved from the renovations in Zug at the time. Like other residences of the wealthy bourgeoisie in Warsaw built or redesigned by Zug during this period, this ensemble also imitated the style of the castles of the king and the resident magnates . King Stanisław August Poniatowski also often took part in the Saturday lunches in the palace, which are popular with society .
After Blank's death, the royal chamberlain, Michał Budziszewski, bought the building at auction. Under him, the palace was converted into a tenement house at the beginning of the 19th century. At that time, apartments and shops were set up here. In 1826 Budziszewski's daughter Józefa Szepietowska inherited the property, who in turn bequeathed it to her daughter Adelajda Kiersnowska in 1853. During the January Uprising , the palace was confiscated and briefly served as the seat of Russian military authorities.
Urban use
After it was returned to the owners in 1865 and followed by another succession, the city's magistrate bought the building in 1896 to furnish office space. From 1916 the building was the seat of the city militia headquarters.
After 1920 this was the headquarters of the state police. In the 1920s it was already used by the mayor for representative occasions. In the years 1935 to 1938, at the request of the mayor at the time, Stefan Starzyńskis , it was completely renovated and converted into his seat. The restoration of the original appearance was carried out under the direction of Stanislaw Gadzikiewicz. Important guests were welcomed here for a short period of time and from here Starzyński coordinated the defense of the city at the beginning of the Second World War until the surrender in 1939 .
Second World War
During the occupation , the Warsaw commissioner Ludwig Leist took the palace as his official seat; from here the work of the Polish city administration was supervised. The interior was brought to Germany. It was destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 and rebuilt from 1947 to 1949 under the direction of Elżbieta Kienitz-Trembicka and M. Ruszkowski. Today the palace is owned by the Muzeum Historii Polskiego Ruchu Ludowego , which, however, has its seat in Żółta Karczma in Mokotów .
References and comments
- ↑ according to Information Blank-Palais (Pałac Blanka) ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Warsawtour.pl
- ↑ Piotr Blank (1742–1797) was a Warsaw banker and financial advisor to the Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski until 1784. He came from a family of French Huguenots who had emigrated to Berlin in the 16th century
- ↑ Reinhold Vetter (see LitVerz.) Describes the palace as early classicistic
- ↑ The Swiss Johann III Bernoulli noted in 1778 that the architectural style of the building reminded him of a pretty Parisian palace, according to Tadeusz S. Jarowszewski, s. LitVerz.
- ↑ It is possible that Johann Christian Kamsetzer was also involved in the renovation
- ↑ according to Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, see LitVerz.
- ↑ It is said that tenants of the palace took part in anti-Russian activities
- ↑ Stefan Starzyński (1893-1943) was a Polish politician, author and economist
- ^ Ludwig Leist (* 1891, date of death unknown) was a German National Socialist, SA Oberführer and Reich Commissioner in occupied Warsaw; see also Polish Wikipedia pl: Ludwig Leist
- ↑ according to Janusz Gmitruk, Museum of the History of the Polish Peasant Movement in Warsaw , museum information brochure, Muzeum Historii Polskiego Ruchu Ludowego (ed.), Warsaw, around 2010 (in English)
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, pp. 39 and 202
- Tadeusz S. Jaroszewski, Palaces and Residences in Warsaw , Interpress Publishing, ISBN 83-223-2049-3 , Warsaw 1985, p. 15ff.
- Reinhold Vetter: Between Wisła / Vistula, Bug and Karpaty / Carpathian Mountains , in: Poland. History, art and landscape of an ancient European cultural nation . DuMont Art Travel Guide, 3rd edition, DuMont Buchverlag, ISBN 3-7701-2023-X , Cologne 1991, pp. 154f.
