Artichoke Palace
| Artichoke Palace | ||
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 Main facade |
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| Creation time : | before 1800 | |
| Castle type : | Palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 13 '32.7 " N , 21 ° 1' 26.3" E | |
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The Palais zur Artichocke (also called Palais Marconi , in the Polish Pałac pod Karczochem ) is located on the historic part of the Warsaw Royal Route in Aleje Ujazdowskie 12/14 ( inner city district ). Today the Lithuanian embassy is located in the listed former residence .
history
Originally there was a small park with a garden pavilion, the roof of which was crowned by an artichoke , in the place of today's building ensemble ; the name was retained in the future. This pavilion belonged to Simon Gottlieb Zug , who also designed it himself. In 1844 the Kraków official Jan Sokołowski owned the property. The neo-Gothic style palace designed by Antonio Corazzi was commissioned by him .
After Sokołowski's death in 1855, the property fell to his daughter, who sold it. After another sale, Tekla Zbijewska became the owner of the palace in 1863. She rented it out to doctors Ropowicz and Bernard, who set up a renowned women's clinic in the building.
The next owners were Jan Bagniewski (1879) and Ludwik Jaroszyński (1882). The latter had modernization work carried out on the residence under the direction of Bronisław Brodzic-Żochowski. The Warsaw entrepreneur Henryk Marconi (a son of the architect Enrico Marconi of the same name ) bought the palace at an auction in 1884. Between 1884 and 1886 he had it rebuilt in an eclectic style by his brother Leandro Marconi , whereby some neo-Gothic parts of the original design have been preserved until today. When Henryk Marconi died in 1921, the property initially fell to his heirs.
The property was only slightly destroyed in the Second World War . After repair, it served as the embassy building of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Mongolian People's Republic . Today it is the seat of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Warsaw. The palace belongs to the family of the politician Stanisław Jerzy Komorowski, who died in an accident in 2010 .
See also
Web links
- Information at KlimatyWarszawy.pl (in Polish)
- Brief information on the website of the City of Warsaw
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund: Architectural Atlas of Warsaw. 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 217.