Dziekana Palace

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Dziekana Palace
Front of the palace

Front of the palace

Creation time : around 1600
Castle type : palace
Conservation status: Reconstructed
Place: Warsaw
Geographical location 52 ° 14 '55.4 "  N , 21 ° 0' 50.3"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '55.4 "  N , 21 ° 0' 50.3"  E
Dziekana Palace (Lesser Poland)
Dziekana Palace
Entrance area with passage to the inner courtyard and triangular gable

The Dziekana Palace (also called the Dean 's Palace ; Polish: Pałac Dziekana ) in Warsaw's Dziekania Street is a building erected after the Second World War . It is modeled on the former palace of the dean's office of the Warsaw collegiate chapter, but not a true-to-original copy. Little is known about the history of the original building.

history

A first wooden building (probably a rectory) was built here in the 15th century and burned several times. Later a brick building was built. It was significantly expanded and rebuilt at the beginning of the 17th century for the dean Jan Raciborski . From around the end of the 17th century, the building was used as a seminary until it moved to a newly built house on Ulica Świętojańska in the second half of the 18th century . Then it was converted into a tenement house with several apartments, in which servants of the nearby castle also lived. In 1780 the street was paved. In 1838 the building was demolished and replaced by a rental building, which was destroyed by German troops during World War II using the Goliath small tank .

In 1944, Stanisław Marzyński redesigned the facility as the original documentation was no longer preserved. Traditional elements of the rear facade were integrated into the street facing front. The reconstruction with a gallery passage took place in the years 1966 to 1968. Today the offices of the Polish Episcopate are located in the listed, two-storey building with the central triangular gable above the passage . In the future, the Warsaw Archdiocese Museum will be housed here.

Adjacent to the palace is a covered corridor (also from the beginning of the 17th century) that crosses the street and was once used as a connection between the royal palace and the royal box in the choir of St. John's Cathedral opposite the palace .

See also

References and comments

  1. according to Janina Rutkowska, City Guide Warsaw , 2nd edition, Verlag Sport i Turystyka, Warsaw 1972, p. 36
  2. monument entry no. 112/2 July 1, 1965

Web links

Commons : Dziekana Palace  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 61
  • Maria Lewicka, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw's Old Town , Arkady Publishing House, ISBN 83-213-3573-X , Warsaw 19, p. 70