Wallenberg-Pachaly-Palais

The Wallenberg-Pachaly-Palais is a palace in the center of Wroclaw . It is on Karol-Szajnocha-Straße, the former Rossmarkt in Breslau .

history

The palace was built in 1785–1787 based on a design by the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans for Karl Anton Gotthard Ducius von Wallenberg (1729–1787) and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth von Pachaly (1745–1798). In 1790 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stayed in the palace during a trip to Silesia. Around 1810 the building was expanded to include the west wing based on a design by Carl Ferdinand Langhans , the builder's son. It was the seat of the private bank G. v. Pachaly sel. Nephew , later G. v. Pachaly grandson , founded in 1679.

The Wallenberg-Pachaly family seat and the banking house were taken over by Commerz- und Privatbank Breslau in May 1920 . After 1945 the building housed part of the collections of the Wroclaw University Library . Since mid-2013, the collections have been moved to the new library building on Joliot-Curie-Strasse.

Currently (2018) the university is looking for a buyer.

The Wallenberg-Pachaly-Palais was added to the list of architectural monuments on November 28, 1947 under the number 27 and on February 15, 1962 under the number A / 2792/191.

architecture

The street front is in the building line . The ground floor façade consists of bosses . Both upper floors are smoothly plastered, the windows on the first floor have triangular tympana . The attic, under a mansard roof , is illuminated by a series of portholes . On the left, both upper floors form a classic portico on four Ionic columns, on the right two Ionic pilasters of the same size are visible. In the oval meeting room there is a ceiling fresco by Anton Bartsch from 1788.