Rusiecki Palace
| Rusiecki Palace | ||
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 Main facade |
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| Creation time : | 1912 | |
| Castle type : | Palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 13 '19 " N , 21 ° 0' 42.3" E | |
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The Rusiecki Palace in Warsaw's Ulica Lwowska 13a is a listed (No. 772-A from July 1, 1965) city villa, which is now partially renovated and unused and will probably be used as the Warsaw seat of a scientific society in the future. The property is hidden in a back yard in the inner city district and is therefore largely unknown.
history
The palace, built in 1912, is located behind a taller tenement house, splendidly decorated on the street facade, which was built around the same time. It was built on a rectangular plan in the style of eclecticism for the wealthy Warsaw collector Stanisław Ursyn Rusiecki. The design and execution can be traced back to the architectural office of Józef Napoleon Czerwiński and Wacław Heppen. On the entrance side in the back courtyard, the central projection with the tall and narrow entrance door to the building framed by two columns and a small balcony is striking . Above this door is the coat of arms (bear and virgin) of the builder's family (Rawa Rusiecki) as well as the inscription “Genus - a Bohemiae - Ducibus”, which refers to the bohemian roots of the builder family. The coat of arms appears several times in the interiors, some of which are decorated with wall paintings. The rear small garden (here the building has a triangular gable over a larger balcony, which contains two set columns on the northern side) borders on the property of the historical Art Nouveau trading hall Hala Koszyki on Ulica Koszykowa . The garden facade is more classical , if not designed symmetrically.
The rental building on the street served Rusiecki as an investment property, while his collections were housed in the small palace. This included paintings, manuscripts, prints, porcelain and militaria. The collector later donated some of these objects to the Kraków National Museum , while some were distributed to Warsaw libraries. In 1944, Rusiecki also transferred the palace itself to the Polska Akademia Umiejętności , which, however, was unable to take possession of the building due to the political situation at the time.
During the Warsaw Uprising , an insurgent hospital was set up in the palace. It survived the war largely undamaged and from 1954 served as the seat of the board of the workers' union for culture and art ( Federacja Związków Zawodowych Pracowników Kultury i Sztuki ). In 1973 a general renovation of the building structure and the wall paintings of the palace was carried out under Halina Rudniewska. On June 30, 2011, it was returned to the Polska Akademia Umiejętności .
In the film "Ile waży koń trojański?" by Juliusz Machulski from 2008, the palace served as a backdrop.
See also
References and comments
- ↑ Stanisław Filip Ursyn Rusiecki (1862–1944), son of wealthy parents, bequeathed around 2500 collectibles to the Cracow National Museum, including 211 paintings, gem. Information on the genealogy website ornatowski.com (in Polish)
Web links
- Detailed information on Nepomuki.pl to Ulica Lwowska and the local buildings (in Polish)
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 89