Sapieha Palace ( pl, pałac Sapiehów w Warszawie) is one of the palaces in

Warsaw New Town The Warsaw New Town ( pl, Nowe Miasto) is a neighborhood dating from the 15th century in Warsaw, Poland. It lies just north of the Old Town and is connected to it by ''ulica Freta'' ( en, Freta Street), which begins at the Warsaw Barbican. Like ...

district of

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. Started by the powerful

Sapieha family The House of Sapieha (; be, Сапега, ''Sapieha''; lt, Sapiega) is a Polish-Lithuanian noble and magnate family of Lithuanian and Ruthenian origin,Энцыклапедыя ВКЛ. Т.2, арт. "Сапегі" descending from the medi ...

who gave the name to the building, it currently houses the Environmental Protection School Complex.

History

18th century

The palace, commissioned by

Jan Fryderyk Sapieha Jan Fryderyk Sapieha () (1680–1751) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, Grand Recorder of Lithuania between 1706 and 1709, since 1716 – the castellan of Trakai Trakai (; see names section for alternative and historic names) is a historic ...

, Chancellor of the

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, was built in

Rococo style Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

in 1731-1746 by Johann Sigmund Deybel. It was constructed as a French-style city palace, so-called ''

Hôtel particulier An ''hôtel particulier'' () is a grand townhouse, comparable to the British townhouse or mansion. Whereas an ordinary ''maison'' (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a s ...

''. At that time it consisted of five-axial main buildings (''

corps de logis In architecture, a ''corps de logis'' () is the principal block of a large, (usually classical), mansion or palace. It contains the principal rooms, state apartments and an entry.Curl, James Stevens (2006). ''Oxford Dictionary of Architecture ...

'') and two outbuildings between the palace and a street. Between 1741 and 1742 the existing one-story outbuilding was connected with the main outbuilding of the palace complex, and between 1771 and 1790 another wing was erected to connect the inhabited ''corps de logis'' with the second outbuilding.

19th century

In 1818–1820 the palace was converted into the Sapieha Barracks (''Koszary sapieżyńskie'') for the use of the army. The Neo-Classical remodelling in the early 19th century was the work of Wilhelm Henryk Minter. During the November Uprising of 1830–1831 it served as the barracks for the famous Polish 4th Infantry Regiment (''Czwartacy'').

20th century

Destroyed in 1944 by German occupying forces, it was rebuilt in the 1950s by Maria Zachwatowiczowa.

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History

18th century

19th century

20th century

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