Brzozowski Palace
| Brzozowski Palace | ||
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| Creation time : | 1882 | |
| Castle type : | palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 13 '55.8 " N , 21 ° 1' 2" E | |
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The Brzozowski Palace (Polish: Pałac Brzozowskich ) is one of the lesser-known residences in Warsaw . The building, built in the neo-Renaissance style at the end of the 19th century, is located in a back courtyard on Ulica Bracka (20a) in the city center . It was placed under monument protection in July 1967 (Register No. 652). Today restaurants and various institutions are housed here. The building is in need of renovation.
history
Little is known about the building history of the property. The palace was probably built for the Brzozowski family by the architect Bronisław Żochowski-Brodzic in 1882 . It was built on the back of a courtyard property, on the side of which facing Bracka Street, a tenement house (20 Bracka street) - the Jaroszyński House (Polish: Kamienica Jaroszyńskiego ) - was built based on a design by Henryk Marconi . The eclectic palace with its echoes of the French Renaissance and elements of the neo-baroque was built about 20 meters behind the tenement house and runs at an obtuse angle to it. In the middle of the courtyard, a small, still existing, two-story pavilion was built where the caretaker lived. From this pavilion, an iron grating with an entrance divided the courtyard.
On the courtyard side was the entrance to the palace, which has a central driveway crowned by a balcony standing on four pillars. To the left and right of the driveway, two further, smaller balconies, each standing on two pillars, protrude from the front facade. The palace has a basement and another three floors. Above the driveway, the roof bears a double dormer window in a gable triangle as the end of a barely protruding central projectile . The palace has two side elevations to the rear. Today the small open space behind the palace, which was a post-war building, is used as a parking lot.
The plot of the novel trilogy "Fame and Honor" (Polish: "Sława i chwała") by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , written from 1956 on, takes place in the palace:
“ The small palace on Bracka-Strasse was conveniently located behind a large, multi-storey apartment building that not only discreetly hid the noble residence, but also brought considerable income despite the tenant protection that has now been introduced. Above all, the palace became a place of refuge for the old princess, her daughter-in-law, who had been taken with her by the events in Ukraine, and the flourishing Alo ... In the small palace on Bracka Street were the representative rooms below and on the first floor the bedrooms of the two ladies and Alos. A long corridor ran through the second floor with a number of smaller rooms. The corridor led to the kitchen and the back stairs "
Both the palace and the apartment building remained the property of the Brzozowski family until 1945. The ensemble burned down for the first time in 1939 during the Battle of Warsaw and then again in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising . After the war, both buildings were rebuilt. The apartment building was raised by one floor, the exterior of the palace was reconstructed true to the original and intended for office purposes. A modern office building was erected on the west side of the backyard in the mid-2000s.
Today the palace houses a branch of the Polish Association of Pensioners and Invalids (Polish: Polski Związek Emerytów, Rencistów i Inwalidów ), along with other organizations .
Views
Side view
The apartment building, on the ground floor of which (here covered by trees) there is also the entrance to the palace behind
Eastward side elevation (containing the stairwell arched in the middle) on the back of the palace
The three-storey pavilion tower in the middle of the courtyard with the grilles running on both sides and separating the courtyard
View along the front facade of the palace to the modern office building built in the mid-2000s on the west flank of the back courtyard
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bronisław Żochowski-Brodzic (1836–1911) was a Polish architect who studied in Munich and worked in Warsaw
- ↑ Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund (see LitVerz.) Speak differently from the Belina-Brzozowski family
See also
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 53
- Tadeusz S. Jaroszewski, Palaces and Residences in Warsaw , Interpress Publishing House, ISBN 83-223-2049-3 , Warsaw 1985, p. 31
Web links
- Historical and current view of the Jaroszyński House at Warszawa1939.pl