Tarnowski Palace

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Aerial view early 1920s. The hotel "Bristol" is the bright building with the inner courtyard in the lower right corner of the picture. The Tarnowski Palace was located here before it was demolished in 1898. Opposite the Krakowskie Przedmieście , the Hotel Europejski (with rounded corners) had stood since 1877

The Tarnowski Palace (Polish: Pałac Tarnowskich ) was a Warsaw magnate residence that existed from the 17th to the end of the 19th century. Today it is replaced by a well-known hotel on Krakowskie Przedmieście (No. 42/44) in Warsaw's inner city district .

history

At the beginning of the 16th century, the property belonged to the mayor of Warsaw, Serafin. In 1655, an initially single-storey building was built on the corner of Krakowskie Przedmieście and the then still narrow pedestrian street Ulica Karowa . The client was Starost Franciszek Andrault de Buy. In the following 150 years, the palace, which had been rebuilt and expanded several times, had changing owners from important Polish noble families. According to Franciszek Andrault, Kazimierz Czartoryski was the owner from around 1732, Izabela Czartoryska from 1741 and the Grand Crown Marshal Stanisław Lubomirski from 1758 . Under Lubomirski, the property was rebuilt from 1760 to 1763 according to a project by Charles Pierre Coustou. Eventually Stanisław Kostka Potocki acquired the palace. Ignacy Potocki had been the owner since 1783. In 1802, the Baroque building came from the Potocki's heirs to the Tarnowski family .

Among the Tarnowskis

The Warsaw Society of Friends of Science met in the palace at the beginning of the 19th century under the owner Rafał Tarnowski . In 1809, after the Battle of Raszyn, the palace served as the seat of their commander, General Maiersfeld, until the Austrian troops withdrew. During the November uprising, General Jan Skrzynecki lived here with his wife Amelia and his children. On the evening of August 15, 1831, a group protesting against the general under the motto “Hang the traitors!” (Polish: “Wieszać zdrajców!”) Tried to get into the palace and seize the family of the absentee. Thanks to the efforts of the Commander of the National Guard, General Antoni Jan Ostrowski and the Governor of Warsaw Jan Krukowiecki , nothing happened to the Skrzyneckis.

From 1823 to 1829, parts of the building contained production rooms for brass tools by Wilhelm Wernitz. A. Muszyński's workshop for agricultural machines moved here. Olimpia Tarnowska was the owner from 1839 to 1844. Around 1856, a gate by Enrico Marconi was built next to the palace on the Karowa side . A sculpture of the Warsaw Mermaid attached here was by Konstanty Hegel. From 1856, after moving out of the Palace to the Four Winds , the Tarnowski Palace was the seat of Nowa Resursa Kupiecka (a spin-off from the older Warszawska Resursa Kupiecka ), until the company, which had been renamed Resursa Obywatelska in 1861, had its own building in the Krakowskie Przedmieście 64 ( Citizens Resource Building ). As a result, the discount bank (Polish: Bank Dyskontowy ) had its offices here, until it too moved into its own property on Ulica Aleksandra Fredry .

In 1892 the right wing of the palace was rebuilt according to a project by Kazimierz Loewe. The central part of the roof was replaced by a glass pane construction, which made it possible to set up a large photo studio. Initially, the photographer E. Troczewski ran his studio here, later the studio was renamed Fotoatelier Konstanty (see also the link to the postcard under web links ). In 1895 the palace was sold to the hotel building and operating company (Polish: Towarzystwu Budowy i Prowadzenia Hotelów ) by Ignacy Paderewski , Stanisław Roszkowski and Edmund Zaremba.

Rotunda and Hotel Bristol

The building, taken over in 1895, was demolished in 1898. On the eastward part of the property, a rotunda in the style of the early Florentine Renaissance was built in 1897 at the expense of the main owner Paderewski, in which panoramic pictures were shown. In 1897 Jan Styka's painting “Panorama of Golgotha” was exhibited here. The Hotel Bristol was then built on the corner of the intersection from 1899 to 1901 under Władysław Marconi and Stanisław Grochowicz in Art Nouveau style with neo-Renaissance influences . The Karowa was expanded into a passable road and the Stanisław-Markiewicz Viaduct was added.

The rococo paneling of a salon of the palace (presumably a bedroom, presumably by the French cabinet maker Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier ) has been preserved; They were initially exhibited in the National Museum in Warsaw and are now located on the first floor of the south wing of the Royal Castle in the former living quarters of Stanislaus II August , the original furnishings of which have not been preserved.

architecture

It was a baroque, two-storey city palace, typically designed for the time, consisting of a set-back core building ( Corps de Logis ) with a central projection, which carried a balcony on the first floor and ended with a triangular gable with windows . The building had a high roof before it was demolished. To the left (north) there was a two-story, but lower wing annex building at right angles. On the right-hand side there was an outbuilding that was also accessible from Krakowskie Przedmieście and had an irregular structure (end of the 19th century). The two outbuildings thus formed a rectangular courtyard of honor for the palace, which ended with a cast-iron gate entrance and bars facing the street. On a photo from 1896, billboards from various shops that are apparently housed in the palace can be seen on the fence grille , including for the photo company E. Troczewski (Polish: Zakładu Fotograficznego E. Troczewskiego ) and the Hilkner bicycle shop.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Serafin (around 1457–1513) was a mayor of Warsaw and a painter
  2. ^ Charles Pierre Coustou (1721–1797) was an architect
  3. ^ Antoni Jan Ostrowski (1782-1845) was a Polish politician and officer
  4. ↑ Konstanty Hegel (1799–1876) was a sculptor and educator
  5. ↑ Kazimierz Loewe (1845-1924) was a Polish civil engineer and architect
  6. ↑ 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. 65
  7. ↑ according to Photo in Dobrosław Kobielski, Warszawa na fotografiach z XIX wieku , Verlag KAW, RSW Prasa Ksiązka Ruch, Warsaw 1982, p. 37

literature

  • Julius A. Chroscicki, Andrzej Rottermund: Architectural Atlas of Warsaw. 1st edition. Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 83 f.

Web links

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '32 "  N , 21 ° 0' 58"  E