Casimir Palace

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Casimir Palace
Pałac Kazimierzowski
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General information
Architectural styleNeoclassical
Town or cityWarsaw
CountryPoland
Historic Monument of Poland
Designated1994-09-08
Part ofWarsaw – historic city center with the Royal Route and Wilanów
Reference no.M.P. 1994 nr 50 poz. 423[1]

The Casimir Palace (Polish: Pałac Kazimierzowski) is a rebuilt palace in Warsaw, Poland. It is adjacent to the Royal Route, at Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28.

Originally built in 1637–41, it was first rebuilt in 1660 for King

Stanisław II Augustus
.

Since 1816, the Casimir Palace has served intermittently as the seat of

Warsaw University (which was closed by the Russian Imperial authorities after each Uprising on the part of their Polish subjects, and in 1939-44 by the Germans
).

History

Origin

Vistula River
, 1644
Villa Regia ("Royal Villa"), 1656

The Casimir Palace was erected in 1637-41 for King

Giovanni Trevano.[2][3] It was constructed as a rectangular building with corner towers, a type of residence known as Poggio–Reale - Serlio after the Villa Poggio Reale
in Naples.

The Villa Regia had a magnificent

literary salon
.

The palace had rich furnishings, with

Charles X Gustav ordered the very window frames pulled out and transported to Sweden.[4]

The Villa Regia had a large concert hall, decorated with an oil-painted

St. Cecilia, patron saint of music and of Queen Cecila Renata, where the Royal Cappella Vasa gave frequent concerts, and a large collection of ancient sculptures which would be plundered during the Deluge by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and taken to Berlin;[3][4] while the garden sculptures were taken to Sweden.[3]
Then, having been plundered, the palace was burned.

Sułkowski
's palace

Following the devastations wrought by the

John II Casimir, who favored it as a residence.[2]

Abandoned in 1667, the palace later became the property of King John III Sobieski. In 1695, the building was totally destroyed by fire.

Rebuilding

In about 1724, the property's ownership was transferred to King

Augustus II. In this period were constructed an entrance gate at Krakowskie Przedmieście and eight barracks
set perpendicularly to the palace façade.

Corps of Cadets, 1785

In 1735, the palace became the property of Count Aleksander Józef Sułkowski. A brickworks, a stove factory and a brewery were established here, and in 1737-39 he rebuilt the palace, probably to a rococo design by Johann Sigmund Deybel and Joachim Daniel von Jauch. The palace was enlarged and covered with mansard roofs. The central portion of the building was adorned with a bulbous top bearing a clock and an eagle.[4]

In 1765, ownership was transferred to King

Stanisław II August, who located the Corps of Cadets here following interior redesigns by Domenico Merlini. From 1769, the famous newspaper sponsored by the King, the Monitor, was printed in an establishment housed in an outbuilding of the palace. On April 5, 1769, the patriotic play Junak was presented on a Cadet Corps stage in the palace.[4]

In 1794, after the suppression of the Kościuszko Uprising, the Corps of Cadets was closed down.

Warsaw University

Casimir Palace, 2019

In 1814, a fire destroyed the barracks before the palace, and in 1816 their place was taken initially by two side

Warsaw University. Concurrently, in 1817–1831, it also housed the Warsaw Lyceum, a secondary school where Frédéric Chopin's father taught French
and whose alumni included young Chopin himself.

The years 1818-22 saw expansion by two pavilions parallel to

classicist
style to the design probably of Hilary Szpilowski and Wacław Ritschel. In about 1820, two further pavilions, a northern and a southern one, arose at the palace building itself.

Warsaw University's Casimir Palace, commemorating 1866–68 student Bolesław Prus

In 1840–41, the next pavilion was built, designed by

Warsaw University
). In about 1863, the pavilions were rebuilt to designs by Antoni Sulimowski.

In 1891–94, in the yard between the palace and the Krakowskie Przedmieście gate, a library building was erected to a design by Antoni Jabłoński-Jasieńczyk and Stefan Szyller, and in 1910 a new Krakowskie Przedmieście gate was built. In 1929–31, the library building was rebuilt, and in 1930, the Auditorium Maximum building was erected to a design by Aleksander Bojemski.

During World War II, the Casimir Palace was destroyed, along with other

Warsaw University buildings. It suffered during both the 1939 defense of Warsaw and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The destruction of the building was estimated at 50%.[5] After the war, in 1945–54, the palace was rebuilt to a design by Piotr Biegański. The reconstruction of the whole campus was finally completed in 1960.[6]

The Casimir Palace currently houses the Warsaw University rectorate, as well as the Museum of the History of Warsaw University. Since the building's revitalization in 2006 (partly with European Union funds), the building is one of the most attractive on Warsaw's Royal Route.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii., M.P. z 1994 r. Nr 50, poz. 423
  2. ^ a b "Pałac Kazimierzowski, Villa Regia". warszawa1939.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-02-17.
  3. ^
    ISBN 83-06-01021-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  4. ^
    ISBN 8301033231.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  5. ^ Małcużyński, Karol; Wojnacki, Wacław (1950). Zwiedzamy nową Warszawę [Sightseeing in Warsaw] (in Polish). Warsaw: Spółdzielczy Instytut Wydawniczy "Kraj". p. 80.
  6. ^ "Pałac Kazimierzowski". maperia.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 29 April 2024.

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