Brühl Palace, Warsaw

The Brühl Palace ( Polish Pałac Brühla ) was a baroque palace in Warsaw from the 17th century on the Saxon axis north of the Baroque garden at the Saxon Saxon Square (now Pilsudski Square).

History

The castle was built there by Jerzy Ossoliński 1639-1642. After the palace passed into the possession of the magnate Lubomirski family. Józef Karol Lubomirski let Tylman van Gameren the Ossoliński -Palais 1681-1696 to expand.

It owes its name to the Saxon Prime Minister, Heinrich von Brühl, who bought the palace in 1750. This was followed in 1754 an extensive refurbishment by Johann Friedrich Joachim Daniel von Jauch and Knöbel, which was completed in 1759. 1787 to 1788 the city palace under Dominik Merlini was redesigned again. After it had served in the interwar period as the seat of the Polish Foreign Ministry, the castle was blown up after the Warsaw Uprising by the Wehrmacht in 1944. A reconstruction is planned.