Citizen Resource Building

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The renovated front facade to Krakowskie Przedmieście in 2011

The building of the Citizens Resource (Polish: Gmach Resursy Obywatelskiej ) is located on Warsaw boulevard Krakowskie Przedmieście 64 and is thus in the city's inner- city ​​district. It served as the seat of Resursa Obywatelska from 1861 to 1939. Today, the building, which was rebuilt after the war, houses the Society for Cooperation with Poles Abroad (Polish: Towarzystwo Współpracy z Polonią Zagraniczną “Polonia” ).

history

Originally (in the 16th and 17th centuries) there was an estate of the Polish magnate Aleksander Michał Lubomirski on this site . In the middle of the 18th century, Antonina Zamoyska owned it and had a palace built here based on a design by Giacomo Fontana . In 1754 the building passed to Bishop Andrzej Stanisław Załuski . Until the middle of the 19th century, the property changed hands several times (including Ludwika Maria Poniatowska) and was gradually converted into an unadorned tenement house.

In 1860 Nowa Resursa Kupiecka acquired the former palace. She had it torn down and by 1861 under Edward Cichocki (winner of the tender; exterior architecture) and Piotr Leon Karasiński (second in the tender; mainly interior work) a new building was built, to which it moved its previous seat from the Tarnowski Palace . The ground floor housed shops and a large dining room, and the upper floor had two ballrooms with a colonnade . In addition to festivals, concerts, congresses and exhibitions were held here. The headquarters of the company was one of the first Warsaw buildings in the style of eclecticism with elements of neo-renaissance , neo-baroque and neoclassicism .

In 1864 an outbuilding on the farm was sold to the publisher Samuel Orgelbrand . In 1925 Maria Skłodowska-Curie met here with Warsaw physics and chemistry professors.

The building was damaged at the beginning of the Second World War . It burned down during the Warsaw Uprising . From 1948 to 1950 it was rebuilt under the direction of Michał Ptic-Borkowski and initially served as a rest home. Today the building houses various institutions, such as the Society for Cooperation with Poles Abroad (Polish: Towarzystwo Współpracy z Polonią Zagraniczną “Polonia” ) and the Polish Press Club. It was completely renovated in the 2000s.

References and comments

  1. ^ Edward Cichocki (1833-1899) was a Warsaw architect
  2. ↑ Leon Karasiński (1879-1945) was an engineer and mechanic and since 1919 professor at Politechnika Warszawska
  3. ↑ according to Brief information on the website of the City of Warsaw (in Polish)

literature

  • Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund: Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, pp. 84f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 43.5 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 52 ″  E

Web links

Commons : Building the Citizen Resource  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files