Mielżyński Palace

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The Mielżyński Palace in Pawłowice ( Greater Poland Voivodeship , Krzemieniewo Municipality ) was designed by the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1778 to 1779 and built from 1780 to 1783 on behalf of the Great Crown Secretary Count Maksymilian Mielżyński (1738–1799) . The interior furnishings were designed by the Warsaw architect Johann Christian Kamsetzer in 1788 .

The residence consists of the main building, connected by arched arcades with two courtyard buildings. The porter's house was next to the driveway.

The construction workers were mainly Silesian craftsmen, but also Polish craftsmen from Rydzyna, Leszno, Poniec and Rawicz. The sculptures, including the lion figures, were created by Vaclav Böhm .

The stucco were plasterers worked from Western European countries. In 1792 the interior was completed, in 1773 the daughter of the client, Katharina, was married. In 1923 the palace was modernized, u. a. the central heating was installed. The palace remained the property of the Mielżyński family until 1939. The German authorities used the palace during the Second World War , and shortly before the end of the war the furnishings were brought to Germany. Today the palace houses the branch of the Zootechnical Research Institute from Cracow and serves as a conference center.

architecture

The palace is a classical building with a ground floor and two upper floors. Under the hipped roof there is an unused attic. The main facade with thirteen window axes is flanked by three-axis risalits . In the seven-axis central part there is a portico with four Ionic columns , crowned with an attic bearing four figures.

Two arcades on an arched floor plan connect the main building with the two courtyard buildings. The two-storey courtyard buildings show the arched entrance under a huge arcade in the center of the main facade. The triaxial middle section is also crowned with an attic bearing three figures.

The Palace in Pawłowice was registered in the list of architectural monuments of the Greater Poland Voivodeship on January 31, 1952 under the number 364 by the National Institute of Art Heritage

  • overall view

  • main building

  • Close up

  • Courtyard building

literature

  • Ewa Lodzińska, Waldemar Wieczorek: Polska niezwykła: województwa wielkopolskie i lubuskie, (Unusual Poland): Wydawnictwo Demart, Warszawa 2009, ISBN 978-83-7427-475-3 , p. 148

Web links

Commons : Mielżyński Palace  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Narodowe Instytut Dziedzictwa, Zabytki w Polsce - woj. wielkopolskie (PDF; 1.9 MB), accessed on October 11, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 48.8 ″  N , 16 ° 45 ′ 0.9 ″  E