Sielce Palace

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Palais Blank
Main facade

Main facade

Creation time : 1820
Castle type : Palace
Conservation status: Reconstructed
Place: Warsaw
Geographical location 52 ° 12 '0.8 "  N , 21 ° 2' 27.9"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '0.8 "  N , 21 ° 2' 27.9"  E
Palais Sielce (Lesser Poland)
Sielce Palace
One of the two pavilions

The Palais Sielce (Polish: Pałac Sielce , also called Stanisław August's bath house , pol: Łaźnie Stanisława Augusta , called) is located in the Warsaw district of Mokotów ( Dolny Mokotów ). Formerly under the address Ulica Chełmska 21 , the property is now located at Ulica Zbyszka Cybulskiego 3 and is used as the headquarters of a Polish employers' association . The palace and two buildings belonging to it are listed.

history

To the south of Warsaw there was the rural village of Sielce. The northern part of this village was transferred in 1412 by the Polish king Janusz I Starszy to the Catholic Church (collegiate college of St. John), whose possession it remained until the third partition of Poland in 1795 and the subsequent confiscation by the Prussian authorities. The second part of Sielce was used as a royal estate ( Folwark Sielce ).

Towards the end of the 18th century, the last Polish king, Stanislaus II August Poniatowski , had the nearby Belevedere complex extended on the site of the former estate . A building that was presumably used as a bathhouse was laid out for him in the new park landscape. Around 1820 the complex then belonged to the Russian Prince Konstantin Pawlowitsch Romanow , who had a palace built here for himself and his second wife, Joanna Grudzińska , with two side buildings (referred to as pavilions). The architect responsible was probably the officer Wilhelm Heinrich Minter .

The complex became the property of the prince through the purchase of the Belvedere in 1818. The landscaped park in the English style extended over 11 hectares . The general governor used the palace as a summer residence. After the couple died from cholera in 1831, the ensemble was passed on to the prince's younger brother, Tsar Nicholas I , in a will. In the years that followed, the palace was given changing, mostly commercial uses and was not adequately preserved.

In 1916, Sielce was incorporated into Warsaw on the instructions of the responsible German Governor General Hans Hartwig von Beseler . This changed the structure of the area from rural to urban development in the medium term. Parts of the park were parceled out for house building. The palace, which had decayed over the years, was repaired by the city from 1918, and the remaining park was made accessible to the public.

The palace is designed in the classicist style of the time and has little decoration. The two-storey building, built on a rectangular floor plan, has a central projectile each with a triangular gable on the front and back. On the east-facing front there is a small balcony supported on two pillars above the entrance door. On the park side, a flat extension was added in place of the wooden winter garden in the 2000s. The two single-storey, symmetrical outbuildings are each around 50 meters away from the palace. The remnants (3.2 hectares) of the former landscape garden, now known as Park Sielecki (Sielce Park), extend behind the ensemble . The barracks buildings originally in front of the palace (i.e. eastward) no longer exist. Here are the offices and halls of a film production company ( Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych ) that were built after the Second World War .

During the war, the buildings were fought over during the Warsaw Uprising , but were only destroyed later. The park was also devastated at the end of the war. In addition to the palace with its two pavilions, which was rebuilt between 1945 and 1950 under Stefan Netto, the park pond from the 19th century that still exists today has been preserved. A complete renovation took place in 1998 under Ryszard Girtler and Marta Gronkiewicz. Since 2012 the palace has served as the seat of the Polish employers' association Polska Konfederacja Pracodawców Prywatnych Lewiatan .

References and comments

  1. ↑ Register entry No. 50 from September 12, 1977
  2. ↑ a b according to Information on Sielce Park on the website of the City of Warsaw (in Polish, accessed on March 15, 2013)
  3. ↑ a b according to Entry Pałac W. Ks. Konstantego i dwie oficyny (tzw. Łaźnie Stanisława Augusta) in the online architecture directory Pamięć Miasta (in Polish, accessed on March 15, 2013)

See also

literature

  • Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 56

Web links

Commons : Palais Sielce  - Collection of images, videos and audio files