Wołowski Palace
| Palais Blank | ||
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 From the ulica Foksal |
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| Creation time : | 1878 | |
| Castle type : | Palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 14 '3 " N , 21 ° 1' 24" E | |
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The Wołowski Palace (also called Stanisław Wołowski Palace , Bourbon Palace or Tenement House , and after the war also called the Palace of Journalists , Polish: Pałac or Kamienica Wołowskiego , Pałac Stanisława Wołowskiego , Pałac Bourbona or Pałac Dziennikarza ) is located in Warsaw's inner city district at ulica Foksal 3/5 . Built as a residence and later used as an embassy building, it is now the seat of the Polish Journalists' Association and an elegant restaurant.
The palace is located at the end of the Ulica Foksal , which ends with the large plot of the Zamoyski Palace . Directly to the west of the Zamoyski Palace is the Wołowski Palace , opposite it is the Przeździecki Palace , which was built at the same time .
history
The palace was built in 1878 for the banker, merchant and landowner of Pruszków , Stanisław Wołowski, based on a design by Bronisław Żochowski-Brodzic. The property consisted of a wide front building and two narrow rear wing extensions. In 1893 the daughter of the builder, Jadwiga Maria (1873-1967) and her husband, Count Antoni Potulicki (1857-1919), inherited the property.
In 1900 Magdalena Radziwiłłowa acquired the palace; she had a two-story extension built on the west side of the three-story core building with a flight of stairs to the garden and a veranda above. From 1922 the princess rented the palace to foreign embassies; from 1922 to 1930 this was the seat of the US ambassador and then - from 1930 to 1939 - that of the Norwegian ambassador. The Mexican embassy is said to have been located on the second floor for a while.
The building also served as a meeting point for members of the Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem organization . On June 15, 1934, the Polish Interior Minister Bronisław Pieracki was shot by a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in front of the property gate . Shortly afterwards the name of the street was changed to Ulica Pierackiego in honor of the murdered man . In 1938 the palace passed to Prince Antoine Marie Joseph Alphonse Adam of Bourbon-Sicily .
War and Post War
During the Warsaw Uprising, the building was used as the Polish Red Cross (PCK) hospital to care for wounded insurgents. A memorial plaque on the property gate has been a reminder since 1994:
“ W tym budynku w okresie Powstania Warszawskiego działał szpital Polskiego Czerwonego Krzyża. Działaczom PCK lekarzom, pielęgniarkom, sanitariuszkom, słuchaczkom szkół PCK. Wsystkim ludziom dobrej woli, którzy pod znakiem Czerwonego Krzyża podczas II Wojny Światowej, a zwłaszcza w Powstaniu Warszawskim nieśli pomoc humanitarną żołnierzom i ludności cywilnej “
“ A Polish Red Cross hospital was located in this building during the Warsaw Uprising. Doctors, nurses and paramedics from the Red Cross and students from Red Cross schools worked here. All the people of good will who, under the sign of the Red Cross, provided humanitarian aid during the Second World War, and especially during the Warsaw Uprising, soldiers and civilians "
At the end of the Second World War , the palace was destroyed. In the years 1947 to 1951, the reconstruction took place under the architects Tadeusz Iskierk, Stefan Hołówki, Czesław Duchnowski, Jerzy Walerian Skolimowski and Mieczysław Piprek, in which the building was restored, however, significantly changed. The changes affected both the building structure and the facade design. Among other things, the building was shortened by an eastward window axis with the former passage.
After the reconstruction, the Polish Union of Journalists (Polish: Stowarzyszenia Dziennikarzy Polskich ) moved into the former palace. In addition to the journalists' representation, other organizations are also located here today, such as the Association of Polish Press Publishers (Polish: Izba Wydawców Prasy ). The “Foksal” restaurant was also set up on the ground floor. Since 1972 the palace has been owned by the Ministry of Finance.
See also
References and comments
- ↑ The palace is often referred to in Polish as “Kamienica” (tenement house). Also according to Discover Małgorzata Danecka, Thorsten Hoppe, Warsaw. Tours through the Polish capital, Trescher Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89794-116-8 , Berlin 2008, p. 162, it does not deserve the name palace or palace
- ↑ Stanisław Wołowski (probably 1834-1892)
- ↑ Bronisław Żochowski-Brodzic (1836-1911) was a Polish architect who studied in Munich and worked in Warsaw
- ↑ according to the family tree Antoni Potulicki b. 1857 d. 1919 at Rodovid.org (accessed February 6, 2012)
- ↑ a b c d acc. Foksal ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Ulice Twojego Miasta (UTM) (in Polish)
- ↑ Presumably it was the nationalist and philanthropist Maria Magdalena Radziwiłłowa, b. Zawisza-Kierżgajło, widowed Krasińska (1861–1945)
- ↑ Antoine Marie Joseph Alphonse Adam of Bourbon-Sicily (* 1929) is the son of Małgorzata Izabella, b. Czartoryska and Prince Gabriele Maria Giuseppe Carlo of Bourbon-Sicily
Web links
- Brief description and historical photos at Warszawa1939.pl (in Polish)
- Website of the Polish Association of Journalists
- Website of the Polish Press Publishers Association