Great Branicki Palace (Nowy Świat)

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The Branicki Palace (also known as the Great Branicki Palace ; Polish: Pałac Branickich or Pałac Branickich Większy ) in Nowy Świat 69 in Warsaw's inner city district no longer exists. It housed the Polish Ministry of the Interior (Polish: Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych ) until its destruction in World War II .

history

A brick building - presumably a rural manor house - already existed on the property on Nowy Świat in the first half of the 17th century. This property was not directly on the street, but was set back about 50 meters; today the east wing of the Polish Ministry of Finance is located here. Anne de la Grande d'Arquien, the wife of the Chancellor of the Grand Crown Jan Wielopolski , had a palace built in its place in the 1680s.

The property, which was provided with a courtyard , was subsequently in the hands of different families. In the first half of the 18th century the residence belonged to the hetman Jan Klemens Branicki and later the hetman of the great crown, Franciszek Ksawery Branicki . The Branicki magnate family had several conversions and extensions carried out in the middle of the century, including the Small Branicki Palace on the south side in 1744 . From then on, the original palace was called the "Great Palace" (Polish : Pałac Branickich Większy ).

From 1773 to 1780 the palace was rebuilt again, under Simon Gottlieb Zug it was given an early classicist facade and a representative large ballroom. Stanisław Staszic lived in the palace until his death in 1826 .

In 1838 Andrzej Artur Zamoyski became the owner of the estate. On his initiative, the facade of the palace was redesigned in the neo-Romanesque style between 1843 and 1846 according to a design by Henryk Marconi . At the same time, Zamoyski had a magnificent rental and office building (with storage and retail space on the ground floor) built on the still undeveloped eastern part of the property - along Nowy Świat , which was called the Zamoyski Palace because of its dimensions . The parts of the former Great Palace were now used as a backyard and ancillary building.

In the interwar period , the palace and the Zamoyski building housed departments of the Polish Ministry of the Interior. Both buildings were destroyed during World War II; In contrast to the Zamoyski House, however, the Branicki Palace was not rebuilt.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 15 ″  N , 21 ° 1 ′ 3 ″  E