Kazanowski Palace

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View of the palace from the east side ( Vistula side ) on an engraving probably by Jacobus Laurus
Detail from the engraving “Urbs Warsovia” by Erik Dahlbergh from 1656: The Kazanowski Palace, here already referred to as “Radziejowski Palace”, is on the right. The building on the left is the smaller Ossoliński Palace (later referred to as the Brühl Palace). Both palaces were looted and burned down in the 1650s
Today the seat of Caritas in Warsaw is located in the next building

The Kazanowski Palace (also Radziejowski Palace , Polish: Pałac Kazanowskich or Radziejowskich ) was a magnificent Warsaw city ​​palace in the 17th century. It was burned down during the Swedish Flood ( Second Northern War ) in 1656 and was not rebuilt in its original form later. In its place, since 1663, as the corner building of Krakowskie Przedmieście 62 and Ulica Bednarska 28 in the inner city, there is also a historic building that is now used by Caritas ( Archdiocese of Warsaw).

history

At the end of the 16th century there was a wooden estate owned by Jerzy Mniszech above the Warsaw Vistula embankment. At the beginning of the 17th century, Andrzej Bobola probably had this building replaced with a brick building. In 1617 the palace became the property of King Sigismund III. Wasa , who gave it to his son Władysław IV. Wasa . After the new owner returned from a trip to Europe, in 1628 he commissioned the builder Constantino Tencalla to build a new palace in the style of the Italian Renaissance . The former Bobola Palace was used as a base.

As early as 1632, the not yet reigning prince gave the palace to his favorite Adam Kazanowski. This generous donation led to problems with the king and the Sejm . From 1637 Kazanowski had the building expanded in the Tencalla style. The palace had four floors, had central heating and was one of the largest and most magnificent Warsaw palaces of its time. In addition to an inner courtyard, it also had a large park laid out on terraces on the embankment of the Vistula. In 1646 Jean Le Laboreur described the valuable interior of the palace, which consisted of fine furniture, marble, Flemish paintings , oriental pictorial work , Venetian-style ceilings, silver and gold tablecloths and a collection of musical instruments. Kazanowski kept a private orchestra that played in the palace.

After Kazanowski's death, the palace fell to his widow, Elżbieta Słuszczanka, who married Hieronim Radziejowski. Later, as a result of a trial against Radziejowski, a feud between the Słuszka and Radziejowski families broke out, in the course of which the palace was occupied by the Słuszkas at gunpoint. In 1656 the magnificent building was looted several times during the Second Northern War and finally burned down. An attack on the building from this period was the subject of Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel “Potop”.

New building

In 1661 the ruins belonged to the Lubomirski family . In 1663 a new building was built here based on a design by Giovanni Battista Gisleni . This building included still existing parts of the old Kazanowski Palace. A short time later, Princess Helena Thekla Lubomirska gave the palace to the Order of the Discalced Carmelites , who adapted it to their needs. Since 1818 it has been the property and seat of the Warsaw Charity Society ( Warszawskie Towarzystwo Dobroczynności “Res sacra miser” ). In 1818 Frédéric Chopin gave a charity concert here. With a decree of 1989, the Primate of Poland handed over the building complex to the Warsaw Caritas ( Towarzystwo Charytatywne Caritas AW ), which still uses it today as its headquarters.

The chapel for the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary located here (Polish: Kaplica Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny ) originally belonged to the Kazanowski Palace. In 1819 Antonio Corazzi rebuilt it in the classical style. Burned out in 1944 as part of the warfare of the Warsaw Uprising , it was rebuilt in 1949 under Jerzy Brabander. The early baroque cloisters and portals in the courtyard have been preserved.

See also

References and comments

  1. ^ Jacobus Laurus, also Giacomo Lauro (1584–1637) was an Italian engraver and engraver
  2. ↑ Adam Kazanowski (1599–1649) was a nobleman and functionary (chamberlain, Starost, court marshal and others) in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania
  3. ↑ according to Paweł Jasienica, The Commonwealth of Both Nations. Silver age , American Institute of Polish Culture, 1987, p. 254 (in English)
  4. ↑ according to Journal of Fine Arts , Volume 52, EA Seemann, 1917
  5. ↑ The Sienkiewicz historical novel “Potop” was published in 1886
  6. ↑ Jerzy Brabander (1920–2004) was a post-war Warsaw architect

literature

  • Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund: Architectural Atlas of Warsaw. 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, pp. 51 and 84

Web links

Commons : Kazanowski Palace  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 42 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 54 ″  E