Belweder

The Warsaw Belvedere (Polish Pałac Belweder ) is an originally baroque and in 1818 rebuilt in neoclassical style palace. This is located on a hill overlooking an artificial pond at the western edge of the Royal Baths Park at the junction of Ujazdowski avenues in the Ulica Belwederska. The Belvedere served hundreds of Polish gentry palace as a model.

History

The palace was built in 1660. In 1767 it was acquired by Stanisław August Poniatowski, who was elected King of Poland a year later. January Kubicki built at this time around the palace in the style of classicism. From 1817 to 1830, the Belvedere served as a private palace of the Russian governor Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich Romanov, brother of the Tsar. After that it was one of the residences of the Tsar in Congress Poland. The rebels stormed the November Uprising there on the evening of November 29, 1830 from the Royal Baths Park is also located in the cadet school coming. While it succeeded Konstantin Romanov to flee, but that the lasting over a year uprising was triggered.

1918 - 1921 and 1926 - 1935 Marshal Józef Piłsudski, lived there. In the interwar period until 1926, the Belvedere served as the seat of the Polish President ( Gabriel Narutowicz, Stanisław Wojciechowski ). During the German occupation of 1939 - 1945 it was the seat of the Nazi governor of Warsaw, Ludwig Fischer, and underwent substantial reconstruction of the interior. In the postwar period, it was the office of the State Council. From 1989 to 1994 it served again the Polish President ( Wojciech Jaruzelski, Lech Wałęsa ) as a residence. After Wałęsa because of the loud bus traffic as well as the modest supply of residential premises ( Wałęsa has eight children, of whom six at the beginning of his Präsidentur a minor) had moved into the presidential palace and Aleksander Kwasniewski and Lech Kaczynski lived there currently uses Bronisław Komorowski, the Belvedere again as a presidential residence. In the meantime, was in the building a museum of Józef Piłsudski.