Palace Square (Warsaw)
The Palace Square (Polish Plac Zamkowy ) is located between the Warsaw Royal Castle and the Old Town . On the south side it was bounded by the city wall and the Krakow Gate.
history
The Sigismund 's Column has dominated the square since 1644 . The Kraków Gate and part of the city wall were demolished in 1818, but the street beginning at the Kraków Gate - the Kraków Suburb (Polish: Krakowskie Przedmieście) - kept its name.
Before the destruction of Warsaw in 1944, Palace Square was one of the busiest squares in Warsaw; From the square a steep road led down through the Felix Pancer Viaduct to the Kierbedź Bridge and on to the Praga district on the right bank of the Vistula .
In 1944 the viaduct and the bridge were blown up. Instead of restoring the pre-war state, the Warsaw city planners in the Biuro Odbudowy Stolicy (BOS) showed their imagination and designed a road tunnel under the castle square in the middle of the sea of ruins, which should divert traffic past the old town. The damaged Pancer Viaduct was demolished and a new, wider bridge ( Śląsko-Dąbrowski Bridge ) was built on the pillars of the bridge built in 1859 . The old houses were carefully restored above the tunnel ceiling. The new east-west route was opened on July 22, 1949 . Now the traffic rolled down in the tunnel and the Schlossplatz was converted into a pedestrian zone. The tram stops at the bottom of the tunnel were connected to the square by an escalator. In 1953 the rebuilt Warsaw Old Town was opened, the Warsaw Royal Castle was only finished in 1988. Only then did the Schlossplatz appear in its current state.
swell
- Encyklopedia Warszawy Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1994, ISBN 83-01-08836-2
- Adam Dylewski: Warszawa i okolice , Pascal, 2008, ISBN 978-83-7513-139-0
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Structure of the approximately 10 km long Warsaw Royal Route (Polish: Trakt Królewski ) from north (city center) to south (Wilanów)
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 51 ″ N , 21 ° 0 ′ 49 ″ E