Palais Hatzfeld (Wroclaw)

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Palais Hatzfeld in the 19th century
The preserved entrance portal
The Awangarda Modern Art Gallery

The Palais Hatzfeld was the residence of the Prince Hatzfeld in Breslau . Destroyed in 1945, it was decided to rebuild the palace in 2007.

history

The Palais Hatzfeld was originally built between 1714 and 1722 as the family seat of the Hatzfeld family according to a design by the architect Christoph Hackner in the Baroque style. In the Seven Years War in 1760 this building fell victim to the flames. After the ruins and the neighboring curia of the Oels princes were demolished, the neo-classical residence of the Hatzfeld princes was built on the property according to a design by the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans 1765–1773 . In 1802 the city of Wroclaw took over the palace as the seat of the authorities.

During the Battle of Breslau in World War II , the upper floors were blown up in order to create a clear field of vision for the anti-aircraft guns . In 1945 the palace burned down completely. The ruins were demolished after the war, only the entrance portal with four columns remained.

A complete reconstruction of the palace was planned, but in the 1960s a building of the modern art gallery “Awangarda” was built according to the design of the architect Edmund Małachowicz, whereby the preserved entrance portal of the palace was integrated into the modern building.

In March 2007, the Wroclaw City Council decided to rebuild the structure. The reconstructed building is intended to house the Wroclaw city authorities.

architecture

The three-storey building with high basements was designed in the style of Italian palaces. There was an attic in the form of a stone railing above the main cornice. The main facade had 19 window axes , with the three middle ones as a risalit forming the entrance area with a balcony resting on four columns and a tympanum over the cornice. The hipped roof was covered with roof tiles.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 34.7 ″  N , 17 ° 2 ′ 15 ″  E

Web links

Commons : Palais Hatzfeld (Breslau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://dolny-slask.org.pl/937462,foto.html?idEntity=508847
  2. ↑ http://www.bwa.wroc.pl/
  3. ↑ http://www.kreatywnapolska.pl/436,l1.html ( Memento of February 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Ordinance of the Mayor of July 25, 2007 on the reconstruction of the palace

literature

  • Hans Jung: Christoph Hackner. A Silesian baroque master builder . Wroclaw 1939
  • Jerzy Krzysztof Kos: Pałac Hatzfeldów we Wrocławiu. Problem autorstwa projektu i źródeł koncepcji architektonicznej [The Hatzfeld palace in Wroclaw. The problem of the authorship of the design and the sources for the architectural concept]. In: Zofia Ostrowska-Kębłowska (Red.): Dylematy klasycyzmu. O sztuce Wrocławia XVIII – XIX wieku i jej europejskich kontekstach [Dilemmas of Classicism. About the art of Wroclaw in the 18th and 19th centuries Century and their European contexts]. Wrocław 1994, pp. 13-55
  • Jerzy Krzysztof Kos: Czy Karl G. Langhans był twórcą Pałacu Hatzfeldów? [Was Karl G. Langhans the creator of the Palais Hatzfeld?]. In: Jerzy Rozpędowski (Red.): Architektura Wrocławia. Tomus 1, Dom [The architecture of Wroclaw. Vol. 1, The House]. Wrocław 1995, pp. 189-200
  • Hellmut Lorenz: The Hatzfeld Palace in Breslau / Wrocław. Carl Gotthard Langhans or Isidore Canevale? In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 50 (1996), pp. 86–93
  • Kai Wenzel: Relation and function. The baroque Palais Hatzfeld in Breslau. In: Susanne Kimmig-Völkner, Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė, Kai Wenzel (eds.): Design spaces. Studies of art history in Central and East Central Europe. Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. Michaela Marek. Regensburg 2017, pp. 41–62