Kazimierz Palace

The Kazimierz Palace (Polish Pałac Kazimierzowski ) is derived from the 17th century building in Warsaw, Poland. It is located at the Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 at the Warsaw Royal Route. Since 1824 located in the palace, the Rectorate of the University of Warsaw.

History

It was founded by King Sigismund III. Wasa King Władysław IV for his sons John II Casimir Vasa and as Villa Regia picturesquely above the steep bank of the Vistula, today Kazimierz Park, built. During the Swedish occupation from 1655 to 1660, the palace was looted and destroyed. Some of the captured components were recovered at a low water Vistula in 2012. 1660 elected John II Casimir Vasa after reconstruction by Isidoro Affaitati as his Sommerrezidenz. From 1737 to 1739 it was rebuilt by Joachim Daniel von Jauch and Johann Sigmund Deybel of Hammerau in the late Baroque style.

The palace was rebuilt from 1765 to 1768 the Cadet Corps of the Knights School of Domenico Merlini. The knights school was located here until 1795. Studied here under other Tadeusz Kościuszko, Kazimierz Pulaski, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and Józef Sowiński.

1807 the French took over the palace. 1808 was again made ​​available for educational purposes and converted to 1830 by Hilary Szpilowski, Adam Idakowski, Waclaw Ritschel and Michał Kado in the style of the mature classicism. 1817-1830 was here the famous Warsaw Lyzäum. 1820, the interior was installed.

Since 1824 the palace is the Rector of the University of Warsaw. Also the Säulenporal also dates this time.

1815 and 1816 were the two strictly classical wing of Hilary Szpilowski added, which were used by the Government Commission for Religious and education since 1861, today the Institute of Law and the Institute of History of Art and Oriental Studies. Antoni Sulimowski added the Corinthian columns.