Palace in Falenty
| Falenty | ||
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 Front to the courtyard |
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| Creation time : | 1533 | |
| Castle type : | palace | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Place: | Falenty | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 8 '22 " N , 20 ° 55' 11" E | |
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The Palace in Falenty (Polish: Pałac w Falentach ) is an early Baroque residence from the first half of the seventeenth century. Falenty is part of the Raszyn rural municipality , which borders Warsaw in the southwest. The address of the palace is Aleja Hrabska 3 . Today the headquarters of the University of Economics and Regional Development are located here .
history
From 1533 it is known that Falenty belonged to Mikołaj Wolski, who owned a wooden mansion here. A brick palace was built around 1620 by Zygmunt Opacki, a royal chamberlain . Today it is surrounded by an English landscape park, which in turn is embedded in a pond landscape and has individual listed trees. In the 17th century this palace was often visited by Polish kings, among others Sigismund III stayed here . Wasa and Władysław IV and in March 1646 Queen Luisa Maria Gonzaga . In 1670 Wojciech Opacki received the Habsburg and future monarch of Poland, Eleonore Maria Josefa . In some older sources, the palace is even referred to as a royal residence at that time - probably because of the frequent royal visits.
Destruction
The building was destroyed during the “Swedish Flood” . In 1717 the voivode of Czernihów , Franciszek Jan Załuski, had the palace repaired. As a result, many ambassadors came here, including the Venetian ambassador Dolfin in 1717. Around 1787, Piotr Tepper and his adopted nephew, the banker Piotr Fergusson Tepper - who had previously bought the Raszyn and Falenty estates - modernized the building based on a project by Simon Gottlieb Zug . On Saturday, July 21, 1787, King Stanisław August Poniatowski stayed in the new palace on his way back from a trip to Ukraine. The palace and the associated goods / villages (Małe Falenty and Wielkie Falenty) were transferred from Tepper to Thomas von Dangel in 1801 as part of the Tepper bankruptcy (Dangel was a creditor of Tepper). Under Zofia von Dangel (Danglowa), a memorial plaque was installed in the palace to commemorate the battle of Raszyn in 1809 (during which the interior of the palace burned) and the subsequent reconstruction of the building.
In 1839 the Warsaw merchant Jan August Spiski bought the property. He built a greenhouse and started growing flowers. He had the park enlarged. The old orangery with its neo-Gothic gate is now in ruins. In 1845 the ensemble came into the hands of Countess Maria Przeździecka (née Tyzenhauz) and Count Aleksander Przeździecki. From 1852 to 1857 they carried out a renovation of the palace, and a stately outbuilding was also built. The project for the work came from Francesco Maria Lanci . From 1872 to 1909 Gustaw Przezdziecki and his daughter Sophia Czetwertyńska were the owners of the palace. Through her marriage in 1925 to Count Adam Remigiusz Grocholski, an adjutant of Józef Piłsudski, the property came into the possession of the Grocholski family (until 1939).
War and Post War
During the Second World War , the palace served as a rest home for high officers of the SS and the Gestapo . The SS commander Ludwig Hahn stayed here often. In 1945 the palace was taken over by the Polish state and an office of the Supreme Control Chamber (Polish: Najwyższa Izba Kontroli ) was established here. From 1952 the Polish State Council (Polish Rady Państwa ) used the property. The conversion to office use in 1956 by the architect Feliks Kanclerz led to the loss of the former charm of the interior design. At the same time, the landscape architect Barbara Chrzanowska redesigned the park. From 1964 the Institute for the Improvement and Management of Grassland (Polish Instytut Melioracji i Użytków Zielonych ) has been located here and since 2002 until today the University of Economics and Regional Development (Polish Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Rozwoju Regionalnego ).
See also
References and comments
- ↑ a b c d e f Jerzy S. Majewski: Na groblach i stawach w Falentach of May 8, 2009 at Warszawa.Gazeta.pl (in Polish)
- ↑ according to B. Pawluśkiewicz and J. Zastawny, Effect of light conditions and renovation method on greeness floristic changes in Falenty Palace-Park Area , in: Landuse Systems in Grassland Dominated Regions , Working Group for the Promotion of Forage Production - AGFF (ed.), ISBN 3- 7281-2940-2 , p. 559 (in English)
- ^ Franciszek Jan Załuski (1660-1735) was a Polish Starost, castellan and voivode
- ↑ Thomas Michael Freiherr von Dangel (1741–1808) was a German entrepreneur in Poland
- ↑ according to Viktor Kauder and Kurt Lück (Eds.), German-Polish Neighborhood , Issue 178, Göttingen Working Group, Issue 3, Verlag Holzner, 1957, p. 308
Web links
- University website (in Polish)
- Website of the Grocholski family with detailed information and photos (in Polish)
- Historic photo of the palace (1942)