Eliza Wielopolska's palace
| Eliza Wielopolska's palace | ||
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 From the Aleje Ujazdowskie |
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| Creation time : | 1875 | |
| Castle type : | Palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 13 '19.4 " N , 21 ° 1' 26.4" E | |
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The palace of Eliza Wielopolska (Polish: Pałacyk Wielopolskich , also called Willa Róż ) is a classicist residence in Warsaw . The palace served as the residence of wealthy Polish aristocrats until the Second World War , after which it was the seat of the British embassy in Poland until the 2000s. The building is currently used for office purposes.
location
The palace is located on the busy Warsaw avenue Aleje Ujazdowskie No. 15, into which the smaller Aleja Róż joins from the west. The official access to the property is then also at Al. Róż (No. 1). The area belongs to the inner city district . On the opposite side of the palace is on the Al. Ujazdowskie the Ujazdowski Park . The Sobański Palace is connected to the property in the south and the Szelechow House (Polish: Dom Szelechowa ) built in 1904 by Stanisław Grochowicz in the north (across from Al. Róż 2 ). In extension at the Al. Róż is home to the Indian embassy of Poland.
history
The palace was built between 1875 and 1876 according to a project by Józef Huss for an executive at the Polish bank , Antoni Nagórny. In 1877 the city administration laid out a small side street named Aleja Róż after a rose garden located here at the time. This turned the property of the palace into a corner property. In the following years the building had different owners. Countess Eliza Wielopolska was the owner from 1898 to 1932 and had the interior extensively rebuilt.
“ The palace of Margravine Eliza Wielopolska on the corner of Ujazdowskie and Roz-Allee is being completely rebuilt inside, electric lights are being installed, etc. In the whole house, work is currently in full swing and should not be completed until the middle of next month. The owner, who has been in our town since yesterday, was therefore forced to stay at the Hotel Europejski . "
The palace survived the Second World War as one of the few buildings in the location largely undamaged. After a repair in 1948, the British embassy , which had previously been located in the Branicki Palace , which was destroyed during the war, moved into the property. Although a piece of land for a new embassy building had already been acquired in 1972, the Wielopolska Palace was renovated in the mid-1980s and used as an embassy building until the end of the 2000s. Because of insufficient space, the consular section had already been outsourced in the 1980s. On April 4, 2008, the foundation stone was laid for the new embassy building on Ulica Kawalerii, which the company moved into in 2010. The palace has since been rented out as an office.
architecture
The two-storey building consists of a square core structure and an elongated auxiliary building on the back on a rectangular floor plan. This auxiliary building extends along the southern property line and ends in a final building that occupies the entire width of the property. This creates at the Al. Róż an inner courtyard separated from the street by a grid. The property is almost completely built over, only to the Al. Ujazdowskie is a small front garden. The palace is designed in an eclectic style and has late classicist features with clear echoes of the Italian Renaissance . It shows a strong resemblance to the Berlin architecture common in its time.
References and comments
- ↑ according to Dom Szelechowa near Warszawa1939.pl
- ↑ according to Janusz Durko, album Warszawski / Warsaw album. The image of the city according to the collections in the Historical Museum of the capital Warsaw , German-Polish edition, Agencja Reklamowo-Wydawnicza A. Grzegorczyk, ISBN 83-86902-73-6 , Warsaw 2000, p. 232 it was the director of the industry - and Commercial Department of the Polish Bank
- ↑ a b according to Information on the embassy history on the website of the British Embassy in Poland
- ↑ according to Tadeusz S. Jaroszewski: Palaces and Residences in Warsaw. see LitVerz.
- ↑ according to Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund: Architectural Atlas of Warsaw. see LitVerz. the object burned out in the war
See also
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund: Architectural Atlas of Warsaw. 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 217
- Tadeusz S. Jaroszewski: Palaces and Residences in Warsaw. Interpress publishing house, ISBN 83-223-2049-3 , Warsaw 1985, p. 168
