Borch Palace
| Borch Palace | ||
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 Court of honor |
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| Creation time : | before 1700 | |
| Castle type : | palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 14 '50.3 " N , 21 ° 0' 27.8" E | |
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The Borch Palace , which is located in Warsaw's inner city district, is an ensemble of buildings from the 18th century.
location
The palace in Ulica Miodowa 17/19 is surrounded in the north by an Evangelical Augsburg church (Polish: Kościoła ewangelicko-augsburski ), Miodowa 21 and in the south by the larger Pac Palace ( Miodowa 15 ). The palace garden, which extends to the west, borders on Ulica Leona Schillera ; here is a garden pavilion . The historic old town of Warsaw begins around 120 meters east.
history
In the place of the current building there was a wooden mansion of Marshal Aleksander Połubiński in the 17th century. In 1681 Wawrzyniec Wodzicki acquired this building. On behalf of the banker Peter de Riacour, who took over the property, a brick baroque palace was built here at the beginning of the 18th century. Around 1780, Crown Chancellor Jan Borch had the central building, which he had bought from Riacour's son Andrzej, rebuilt in a classicist style based on a design by Domenico Merlini . From 1800 to 1810 the Palais belonged to Ludwik Nesti, who ran a well-known restaurant with an attached pastry shop here.
From 1810 to 1837 the palace belonged to the Kerner family. The Hotel d'Europe, run by Szymon Chovot, was located in the building until 1830 . The Russian embassy was temporarily housed in the hotel .
In 1837 the property was acquired by the government. Until it was moved to Puławy in 1843, the Institute for Alexandrian Daughter Education (Polish: Instytut Aleksandryjskiego Wychowania Panien ) had its seat here. After a renovation, in 1843 it became the residence of the Metropolitan and Archbishop of Warsaw . The palace burned down during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Between 1949 and 1954, Stanislaw Marzyński was rebuilt in the form of the 18th century in the late Baroque style with a classicist structure. Seat of the Primate of Poland until 2007 .
In the former French garden, a pavilion was built in 1768, which was later redesigned by Borch. It also burned out during the war and was rebuilt in 1966 in the late Baroque style.
anecdote
According to a transcript by local historian Franciszek Maksymilian Sobieszczański, Karol Kerner received the palace in 1810 as a gift from Prince Józef Poniatowski . During his service in the imperial “Austrian” army he was rescued in a battle by the soldier from Croatia . Poniatowski later took Kerner to Warsaw out of gratitude, where he kept him at his court and gave the castle that Nesti had acquired as a present.
architecture
The palace building has a compressed H-plan. It lies across the elongated property around noon and forms a classic horseshoe shape with the side wings of the courtyard. Three floors are adorned by a small attic roof with a surrounding balustrade on which the roof rests. A pronounced central projecting from the building on three arcade arches protrudes towards the garden ; on the front facade it is significantly flatter. For this he has a balcony on the first floor. The two side wings of the courtyard , which is open to the street, are only two-story. A wrought iron lance fence and a brick entrance made of four gate pillars with two pedestrian entrances close the courtyard from the street.
References and comments
- ↑ Aleksander Hilary Połubiński (1626–1679) was a Polish-Lithuanian marshal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- ↑ Peter de Riacour, also: Pior de Riacour (1691–1768) was a banker and chamber councilor from Saxony, according to Detlef Döring (Ed.), Johann Christoph Gottsched. Correspondence: Including the correspondence from Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched , Volume 1, ISBN 3110232928 , Walter de Gruyter, 2007, p. 513
- ^ Jan Jędrzej Józef Borch (1715-1780) was a Polish Crown Chancellor
- ↑ Andrzej de Riacour (1722–1794) was a diplomat in the Saxon service
- ^ Stanisław Leon Marzyński (1904–1992) was a Polish architect and professor at the Technical University of Warsaw
- ^ Franciszek Maksymilian Sobieszczański (1814–1878) was a Warsaw historian and local researcher
See also
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw, 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 171
- Tadeusz S. Jaroszewski, Palaces and Residences in Warsaw , Interpress Publishing, ISBN 83-223-2049-3 , Warsaw 1985, p. 22ff
Web links
- The Palace at Warszawa1939.pl (in Polish)
- Description at Polskiezabytki.pl (in Polish)