Witzlow's house

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The Witzlowsche Haus was a city ​​palace in Stettin . It was considered the finest example of a Pomeranian city ​​palace from the 18th century and was demolished in 1890.

The palace was under the rule of the Prussian King I. Friedrich Wilhelm built. He had acquired Stettin for Prussia in the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720 and set about repairing the damage and closing gaps in construction that had occurred in 1713 during the siege of Stettin . In this context, Philipp Otto von Grumbkow , the newly appointed President of the Pomeranian War and Domain Chamber, built a stately palace on Roßmarkt with financial support from the King from 1723 to 1726. The plans came from the Prussian major general and chief of the engineering corps Peter von Montargues , and from 1724 the chief construction director Philipp Gerlach worked on the construction. The king took part personally, so he decided on April 12, 1725 to paint the facade in yellow and white.

From 1757 to 1763 Friederike Dorothea Sophia lived in the palace, the wife of Duke Friedrich Eugen von Württemberg , who was in Prussian military service . Later owners were a Kommerzienrat Salingré from 1777 and the Witzlow family in the 19th century, after whom the palace was named the "Witzlow House". The palace existed until 1890 when it was demolished to make way for a building belonging to the Prussian National Insurance Company .

The three-storey building, built in the “Prussian Baroque ” style, had a richly structured facade with a broad central projectile , a magnificent staircase and numerous hall-like rooms. It was considered "the most beautiful example of a Pomeranian city palace from the 18th century" and the "most beautiful of all private houses in Szczecin".

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  1. ↑ Helmut Sieber : Palaces and manors in Pomerania . 3. Edition. Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1978, pp. 75-77.