Small Branicki Palace (Nowy Świat)

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The Branicki Palace (also called Little Branicki Palace ; Polish: Pałac Branickich or Pałac Branickich Mniejszy ) in Nowy Świat 67 in Warsaw's inner city district no longer exists. Until its destruction in World War II, it housed the Central Command of the Polish State Police (Polish: Komenda Główna Policji Państwowej ).

history

The small palace was built in 1744 by the Branicki magnate family on the southern part of the property of a larger Branicki palace . In contrast to this, the new building was called the “Small Branicki Palace” (Polish: Pałac Branickich Mniejszy ). The building was rebuilt as early as 1780 and received a classicist facade under Simon Gottlieb Zug . A Doric colonnade was built in the courtyard .

Around 1819, Anna Sapieha (also: Sapieżyna), the co-founder of the Warsaw Charity Society (Polish: Warszawskie Towarzystwo Dobroczynności ), acquired the property. The palace has now been divided into different apartments and rented out. In the 1830s, Andrzej Artur Zamoyski became the owner of the building. As part of the construction of the Zamoyski Palace between 1843 and 1846 on the eastern part of the property, the small palace of Henryk Marconi was probably also rebuilt.

In the interwar period , the headquarters of the State Police Command ( Policja Państwowa ) was located in the two-storey palace . The palace was destroyed during the war and not rebuilt later.

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