Kotowski Palace

The Kotowski Palace, drawn by Tylman van Gameren

The Kotowski Palace ( Pol. Pałac Kotowskich ) was a palace from the 17th century in Polish Warsaw . As a painting by Bernardo Bellotto shows, it was located immediately east of St. Casimir's Church on the east side of Rybaki Street. This area was not rebuilt after Warsaw was cleared.

history

The palace was from 1682 to 1684 for the Steward Adam Kotowski and his wife Małgorzata, born Durant, now in the same chapel Kaplica Kotowskich , are buried in palladianistischen style of Baroque built. The architect was the Polish engineer of Dutch origin Tylman van Gameren .

In 1688, Queen Marie d'Arquien , the wife of the Polish King Jan Sobieski , bought the palace and had it converted into a monastic complex for the sisters of the Benedictine order .

During the Second World War , the facility served the Polish troops as a hospital . This made the palace one of the highly frequented targets in the Wehrmacht air raids during the Warsaw Uprising . After the suppression of the uprising, the palace was finally blown up during the planned complete destruction of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht in 1944.