Jabłonowski Palace
| Jabłonowski Palace | ||
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 The facade prepared for the Theaterplatz |
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| Creation time : | 1773 | |
| Castle type : | palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 14 ′ 41 " N , 21 ° 0 ′ 35" E | |
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The Jabłonowski Palace (also known as the New Town Hall , Polish: Pałac Jabłonowskich ) is located in Warsaw's inner city district on Theater Square (Polish: Plac Teatralny ). It should not be confused with the city palace, sometimes referred to as the Jabłonowski Palace , on Nowy Świat Street . The building, which was erected as a modern office in the 1990s, is located on the site of the historic Jabłonowski Palace and, on the side facing the square, also bears its neo-Renaissance front facade . Apart from that, the palace, which is now the seat of the German-Polish BRE Bank, is a modern, functional building.
Geographical location
The palace stands on the long north side of the central Warsaw Theater Square, which Ulica Senatorska runs through here . Opposite the square is the Teatr Wielki . In the east, which closes Blank Palace , and originally built in the West in the 18th century and also in the 1990s, rebuilt Andrew's Church (Polish: Kościół św Andrzeja. ), Which today serves as a pastoral center for artists.
history
The original Jabłonowski Palace was built in the years 1773 to 1785 for the Polish magnate Antoni Barnaba Jabłonowski according to a design by Giacomo Fontana by Domenico Merlini in the Baroque style. The city of Warsaw acquired the building in 1818 and used it as the new town hall from 1817 to 1819 following a renovation led by Friedrich Albert and Józef Grzegorz Lessel , following the former medieval town hall on the old town market. Around 1823 a turret was placed on the roof to carry out optical telegraphy .
In 1863, during the January Uprising , the palace was set on fire by insurgents to destroy tax records. By 1870, the building was rebuilt in the French neo-renaissance style. During the expansion of the reconstruction after Rafał Krajewski and Józef Orłowski, the clock tower on the left was also added, which served as a lookout tower for the 2nd Department of the Warsaw Fire Brigade ( II Oddział Warszawskiej Straży Ogniowej ), which was also housed here after the construction . In place of the Łagiewnicki House, which previously adjoined the square to the west, another wing was added to the palace. The roof was also redesigned; now built high, it contained floors and several small gables with balcony-like exits. From now on the town council met in a large neo-renaissance hall, the magistrate in a hall with 25 portraits of important Poles and in a hall named after Jan Dekert there was a "Triumph of Truth" (Polish: Tryumf Prawdy ) by Marcello Bacciarelli ( from the Primate's Palace ) imitated ceiling painting.
Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , the town hall was completely renovated. At the same time, under the direction of Oskar Sosnowski, conversions and extensions were carried out, such as the construction of a large, seven-story extension behind the palace on Ulica Daniłowiczowska .
World War II and post-war period
In September 1939, City President Stefan Starzyński headed the civil defense of Warsaw from the City Hall . During the Warsaw Uprising , the palace was burned down by German units; the remaining ruins were demolished in 1952. After the demolition, a spacious square with a monument to the Warsaw Nike , which was dedicated to the heroes of Warsaw who fought against the occupiers during the war , stretched out on the site .
In the years 1995 to 1997 a modern office building (headquarters of the BRE Bank ) was erected here, which towards the square got the appearance from the time before 1936, while the other invisible facades are modern. The interiors were also designed according to modern standards, which means that the floors do not correspond to the height of the windows on the front facade; From the square, the ceilings of the now lower floors can be seen behind the high windows of the formerly higher floors. In the gate under the tower you can see a fountain uncovered during the reconstruction and cast decorations of the old town hall. The current City Hall of Warsaw is located in the former palace of the Government Commission for Income and Finance .
See also
literature
- Małgorzata Danecka, Thorsten Hoppe: Discover Warsaw. Walking tours through the Polish capital. Trescher Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89794-116-8 , Berlin 2008, p. 126f.
- Janusz Durko: Album Warszawski / Warsaw Album. The image of the city according to the collections in the Historical Museum of the Capital Warsaw , German-Polish edition, Agencja Reklamowo-Wydawnicza A. Grzegorczyk, ISBN 83-86902-73-6 , Warsaw 2000, p. 109 (Fig. 197)
- Grzegorz Piątek, Jarosław Trybuś: Warsaw. The thematic guide through Poland's capital , Kamil Markiewicz (Uebers), ISBN 978-3-89728-070-0 , Schröder, Verlag für Regionalkultur, Diepholz 2009, p. 50
Web links
- Description and many historical photos at Warszawa1939.pl (in Polish)
References and comments
- ^ Antoni Barnaba Jabłonowski (1732–1799) was a Polish castellan, Starost, Vojewode, Marshal of the Crown Tribunal and holder of high orders
- ↑ The Town Hall on Warsaw's Old Town Market was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century and was not rebuilt after the war
- ↑ Józef Orłowski (1819–1880) was a Polish architect
- ^ Jan Dekert (1738–1790) was a merchant and mayor of Warsaw
- ↑ Existing information on the ceiling painting is unclear. It may also have been the use of the original from the Primate's Palace
- ^ Oskar Sosnowski (1880-1939) was a Polish architect and monument protector
- ^ Stefan Starzyński (1893-1943) was a Polish reserve officer, politician, economist, publicist and from 1934 to 1939 President of the City of Warsaw
- ↑ Today the hero monument created by Marian Konieczny (* 1930, Polish sculptor, university professor and politician) stands around 200 meters behind the palace on Trasa WZ