Wessel Palace
| Wessel Palace | ||
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 From the Krakow suburbs |
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| Creation time : | 1746 | |
| Castle type : | palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 14 '37.1 " N , 21 ° 0' 49.7" E | |
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The Wessel Palace (also known as Ostrowski Palace or Old or Saxon Post ; in Polish: Pałac Wesslów or Ostrowskich , Stara Poczta or Poczta Saska ) is a prestigious magnate residence on Warsaw's splendid boulevard Krakowskie Przedmieście (No. 25) in the inner city district . The late baroque building now houses the attorney general's office.
location
Located on the historic Königsweg and the street Ulica Trębacka , the Wessel Palace is surrounded by many important buildings: across from Krakowskie Przedmieście is the monument to Adam Mickiewicz , on the right behind the monument is the Carmelite Church and around 50 meters in to the south are the President and the Potocki Palace . The Wessel Residence is located at the beginning of Ulica Kozia , which runs from here to the Primate's Palace ( Ulica Senatorska ) and passes the "Bridge of Sighs" of the former Hôtels de Saxe .
history
The exact date of construction of the palace is not known; probably it was in the years from 1746 to 1752. The construction was commissioned by Andrzej Stanisław Załuski . Before the palace was built, there were two tenement houses here. In the city map by Pierre Ricaud de Tirregaille from 1762 a picture of the palace is preserved on the border . In 1761 the crown treasurer Teodor Wessel acquired it from a Zaluski. In 1764 Wessel sold the palace to Antoni Ostrowski. In 1780, the postal director Ignacy Przebendowski bought it . Under him, the seat of the Royal Post Office was moved to the building. In 1798 the palace was designated as a royal private property and passed on to Józef Antoni Poniatowski as an inheritance . A subsequent owner named Schultz sold it to the Berlin General Post Office in 1805. From now until 1874 the post office (post stables) was located in the palace. When Frédéric Chopin left the country on November 2, 1830, he began his journey to Vienna from here.
Shortening and renovation at the end of the 19th century
When the widening of Ulica Trebicka began in 1882 , an annoying annex building attached to the palace in the south was demolished. In addition, the core building had to be shortened by one meter. The palace was therefore rebuilt under Władysław Marconi and Aleksander Jan Woyde . The shortening was spotted by an inclined window axis on the south ceiling, the south side received a new facade, and an additional floor was added to the previously three-story property. Here, the existing gable extension of having been pilasters provided Mittelrisaliten used, the originally available, two magnificent baroque dormers to Krakowskie Przedmieście been replaced by an extension of the gable Ausbaues.
Since 1887 the editorial rooms of the newspaper “Kurier Codzienny” and the weekly magazine “Tygodnik Ilustrowany” have been in the building. Piotr Chaber ran a tailor's shop on the ground floor and the Mach brothers' wax museum on the first floor. In the interwar period, the antiquarian bookshop "Palast der Kunst" had its sales rooms here.
War and Post War
In 1944 the palace burned down completely after a bomb attack, only the outer walls remained. From 1947 to 1948 it was rebuilt under the direction of Jan Bieńkowski; it got its appearance from the 1882 renovation. Initially the public prosecutor's office of the Voivodeship (Polish Prokuratura Wojewódzka ) was housed here, then the Public Prosecutor General of the People's Republic of Poland (Polish Generalna Prokuratoura PRL ). Today the seat of the General Prosecutor's Office (Polish Prokuratury Apelacyjnej ) and the Institute of Juztiz Exercise (Polish Instytutu Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości ) are located here . At the time when Zbigniew Ziobro , who was present in the media, was Minister of Justice in Poland, he often gave interviews in front of the palace.
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw, 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 81
- Tadeusz S. Jaroszewski, Palaces and Residences in Warsaw , Interpress Publishing House, ISBN 83-223-2049-3 , Warsaw 1985, p. 166 ff.
Web links
- Information and historical photos of the palace near Warszawa1939 (in Polish)
- Information about the palace on WarsawaWiki (in Polish)
- Information about the palace on the website of the City of Warsaw (in Polish)
- Information on the palace at Dawna Warszawa (in Polish)
- Information and historical photos of the palace at Klimaty Warszawy (in Polish)
See also
References and comments
- ↑ Teodor Wessel († 1791) was a Polish voivod and under-treasurer of the grand crown.
- ^ Antoni Kazimierz Ostrowski (1713–1784) was a Polish archbishop.
- ↑ Ignacy Franciszek Przebendowski (around 1730–1791) was a Polish voivod and general director of the Royal Mail since 1776 and a member of the National Education Commission