Raczyński Palace
| Raczyński Palace | ||
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 Main facade |
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| Creation time : | 1702 | |
| Castle type : | palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 15 '0.4 " N , 21 ° 0' 29.9" E | |
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The Warsaw Raczyński Palace (Polish: Pałac Raczyńskich ) is located on Ulica Długa 7 in the so-called New Town , which is now part of the city's inner- city district.
history
Originally a house of Franciszek Witthoff stood here. In the years 1702 to 1704, a larger baroque building - presumably based on a design by Tylman van Gameren - was built in its place for the city councilor Jakub Schultzendorff . In 1717, Bishop Felicjan Konstanty Szaniawski bought it and had it rebuilt. Jan Szembek and Stanisław Mycielski were the owners of the palace.
Kazimierz Raczynski
In 1787 the building came into the possession of General Filip Nereusz Raczyński, who soon passed it on to his cousin and father-in-law, Court Marshal Kazimierz Raczyński. From 1786 to 1789, the palace was completely redesigned in the classical style for the new owner, based on a design by Johann Christian Kamsetzer . Of the then-built interior especially the classical ballroom with its stucco and allegorical paintings is about Law in the piano nobile worth mentioning.
Because of the Kościuszko uprising Raczynski had to leave the city in 1794. As a result, the Polish state used the palace and initially set up the seat of the Supreme National Council (Polish: Najwyższa Rada Narodowa ) here. Later (during the Napoleonic Wars ) accommodation for French officers was set up here, in which Louis-Nicolas Davout and Joachim Murat also lived. In 1827 Raczynski's heirs sold the palace to the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland . The government used the building to house the State Justice Commission (Polish: Komisja Rządowa Sprawiedliwości ) and from 1876 as the seat of the Commercial Court (Polish: Sąd Handlowy ) and the President of the Russian Higher Judicial Authority (Polish: Izba Sądowa ).
From 1853 to 1854 an annex (to the rear Ulica Podwale ) was built to run a restaurant. Between the wars, the Polish Ministry of Justice was housed in the palace. Around 1930 Marian Lalewicz directed the restoration of the building.
World War II and post-war period
During the occupation of Warsaw in World War II , a German higher court was active in the palace, the highest court in occupied Poland .
During the fighting of the Warsaw Uprising , the building served as a hospital; SS units carried out a massacre of around 430 wounded here in 1944, a memorial plaque in the interior of the palace commemorates this. In 1944 the palace was burned down. Under Władysław Kowalski and Borys von Zinserling (1889–1961), architect and teacher at the Politechnika Warszawska , the building was rebuilt between 1948 and 1950. From 1972 to 1976 the large ballroom was also restored; it resembles the hall of the Łazienki Palace .
The classical palace has three storeys, stands on a rectangular plan and extending in the alignment of the development of Długa . The front facade is dominated by a four-column, Ionic portico . At the rear of the palace there are two wings around 40 meters long. These buildings are also three-storey, but have a flatter roof than the core structure. The southern wing on Jana Kilińskiego Street is indented by around 5 meters, and there are memorials to the Warsaw Uprising on the green space that is thus created facing the street. The north wing runs at the level of the core building; This creates an inner courtyard between the two wings, which is now used as a parking lot. The main archive for old files (Polish: Archiwum Głowne Akt Dawnych ) is currently located in the building .
References
Web links
- Brief information with historical photo at Warszawa1939.pl (Polish)
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 59 f.
- Janina Rukowska, Travel Guide Warsaw and Surroundings , 3rd edition, ISBN 83-217-2380-2 , Sport i Turystyka, Warsaw 1982, p. 121 f.
Footnotes
- ↑ Konstanty Felicjan Szaniawski (1668-1732) was a Polish bishop and politician
- ↑ Jan Sebastian Szembek († 1731) was a Polish Starost and Chancellor of the Grand Crown
- ^ Stanisław Mycielski (1743-1818) was a Polish starost and writer and general in the Lithuanian army
- ↑ possibly also a Ksawery Szaniawski
- ↑ Filip Nereusz Raczyński (1747-804) was a Polish officer
- ↑ Kazimierz Jan Nepomucen Raczyński (1739-1824) was a Polish general and politician
- ↑ according to Teresa Czerniewicz-Umer, Małgorzata Omilanowska, Jerzy S. Majewski (main authors), Die Stadtteile Warschaus , in Polen , from the series: Vis-a-vis , Dorling Kindersley, updated new edition, Munich 2006, p. 69