Branicki Palace (Nowy Świat)
| Branicki Palace | ||
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 Court of honor |
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| Creation time : | before 1800 | |
| Castle type : | palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 13 '57.1 " N , 21 ° 1' 14" E | |
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The Branicki Palace is one of several of the family Branicki appointed residences in Warsaw . The ensemble described here deals with a neo-renaissance palace built in the middle of the 19th century with adjoining buildings in which the British embassy was located between the two world wars and which today - extensively restored - is the seat of state institutions.
location
The ensemble of buildings is located at Ulica Nowy Świat 18/20 in Warsaw's inner city district . It is a corner location with Ulica Smolna in the immediate vicinity of the Rondo Charles'a de Gaulle'a roundabout , which forms the intersection of the west-east main artery Aleje Jerozolimskie with the traffic-calmed Nowy Świat (part of the Königstrakt ). Opposite the Branicki Palace is the Kossakowski Palace at 19 Nowy Świat Street .
history
The building history of the palace is not clear. Presumably Józef Mystowski bought the property with a building on it in 1771. At the end of the 18th century a palace that stood here belonged to Marcin Baden, after which it was named Palais Baden . Nothing is known about the appearance of this building. In 1819 it belonged to Konstancja Bilicka and consisted of a brick core and two brick upstream outbuildings at the front as well as a stables , a coach house and a third outbuilding made of wood. Between 1823 and 1825 the palace was rebuilt for Wincenty Lewinski. Adolf Gregor Franz Schuch is said to have been in charge of this construction project . According to other sources, the original building was partially demolished in 1812.
Around 1852, the Branicki magnate family acquired the Lewinski estate. Henryk Marconi had the palace rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style. A pharmacy that was moved from the old town market to the southern pavilion in 1851 is one of the oldest and most beautiful in Poland. Your neo-Gothic interior has been preserved. On January 1, 1899, the owner of Wilanów , Ksawery Branicki, became the new owner of the ensemble on Nowy Świat. From 1899 he built several tenement houses in the former palace garden on Ulica Smolna.
In the interwar period, the British embassy was initially located in the palace, followed by the British embassy. The wife of the British envoy Sir William Grenfell Max-Muller, Lady Wanda (née Heiberg), was well known for her beauty. During a strike by cleaning staff in Warsaw in the early 1930s, to the astonishment of Warsaw passers-by, she herself swept the inner courtyard of the palace complex. When England entered the Second World War on September 3, 1939, several thousand Warsaw residents gathered on the embassy grounds.
The palace was destroyed by German units during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The reconstruction from 1948 to 1950 was directed by Zygmunt Stępiński and Bolesław Gałązka. Among other things, a registry office was set up in the restored building. After the fall of the Wall, the offices of the Samoobrona and Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej parties were located here for a while . Today the offices of the Voivodeship Monument Protection Agency (Polish: Wojewódzki Urząd Ochrony Zabytków ) are housed in the palace. As part of a complete renovation of the palace, the two outbuildings and the adjoining town house in 2010, the dividing grille to ul. Nowy Świat, which had not existed since the war, was restored.
architecture
The three-story core structure of the palace is shaped like the mirror-inverted letter L, with the east-facing wing at ul. Smolna. The front of the Nowy Świat street is preceded by two two-story offices . The northern store is connected to a town house, the design of which harmonises with the palace architecture. At the northern entrance to the palace courtyard, this town house has a small stair tower. The small court of honor created by the two upstream outbuildings is separated from Nowy Świat by a fence (including an entrance). Between the palace and the two officers there is a brick entrance to the courtyard - in the south from ul.Smolna, in the north from what is now a larger backyard area (with flat bazaar and restaurant buildings) between ul.Smolna and ul. Foksal .
In the 19th century , the palace had a large baroque garden at the back , which is no longer preserved. After the development of tenement houses at ul. Smolna, only an open space, now used as a small car park, remained at the rear of the palace. Some of the two officers in front of the palace still have Gothic vaults in the interior.
References and comments
- ↑ according to Embassy history on the website of the British Embassy in Warsaw
- ^ Marcin Baden was a general administrator of Polish royal goods and Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Poland
- ^ The Polish family of the Counts Baden (Bończa coat of arms) was one of the most influential and wealthy families in Galicia in the 19th century
- ↑ according to Brief information about Pałac Branickich at Polskaniezwykla.pl (in Polish)
- ↑ a b according to Information at Pałac Branickich - Nowy Świat 18/20 at Gazeta.pl - Photo Forum (in Polish)
- ^ Ksawery Władysław Branicki (1864-1926) was a Polish landowner and businessman. He was one of the richest Poles of his time and owned, among other things, the palace complexes in Wilanów and Montrésor Palace in France. He is not to be confused with Franciszek Ksawery Branicki .
- ↑ according to Information at Warszawa1939.pl (in Polish)
- ↑ according to Brief information Pałac Branickich w Warszawie przy ulicy Nowy Świat 18/20 (in Polish)
See also
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund: Architectural Atlas of Warsaw. 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 180
- Tadeusz S. Jaroszewski: Palaces and Residences in Warsaw. Interpress Publishing House, Warsaw 1985, p. 29
Web links
- Historical view of the Branicki Palace near Warszawa1939.pl
- Website of the Mazowiecki Wojewódzki Konserwator Zabytków (Urzędu Ochrony Zabytków w Warszawie)