Grüssau house

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Grüssau house

The Grüssau House is a former monastery courtyard of the Grüssau Cistercian abbeys . It was built in the Baroque style from 1723 to 1725 as their city residence in Schweidnitz , the capital of the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer .

history

The house was built by Abbot Dominicus Geyer from Grüssau based on a design by the builder Felix Anton Hammerschmidt from Schweidnitz in Köppenstrasse (today Franciszkańska Street ). It was to serve him and his successors as a city residence and guest house while attending the state parliament sessions in Schweidnitz. It was the most important secular building of the abbot Dominicus. The three-storey building was built as a four-wing complex with an inner courtyard. The portal, crowned by consoles with masks, was created by the Schweidnitz sculptor Georg Leonhard Weber . The Silesian Eagle is located above the keystone . The ground floor was built with barrel vaults and Bohemian caps designed with stucco framing.

When, after the First Silesian War, Schweidnitz, like almost all of Silesia , fell to Prussia , the new sovereign King Friedrich II handed over the Grüssau abbot to his favorite Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué , who was an enemy of the priests and monks. After the secularization of the Grüssau possessions in 1810, it was initially used as an arsenal and then as a tax office. After the Second World War in 1945, almost all of Silesia became part of Poland. Since then it has been referred to as Pałac opatów cystersów krzeszowskich or Dawny Dwór opatów krzeszowskich . The Municipal Library ( Biblioteka Miejska ) has been located there since the renovation in 2005 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Anton Hammerschmiedt died on October 16, 1762 in Neisse .
  2. ↑ szlaki kulturowe

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 40.5 ″  N , 16 ° 29 ′ 15.5 ″  E