Pałac Biskupów Krakowskich w Warszawie

The Kraków Bishops Palace (Polish: Pałac Biskupów Krakowskich w Warszawie) was the residence of the bishops of Cracow in Warsaw. It is located at 5 Miodowa Street.

It was built for bishop Jakub Zadzik in 1622 and rebuilt in 1668 by bishop Andrzej Trzebicki after its destruction in the Swedish Wars. It was in poor repair by the mid-18th century and was extensively rebuilt in the late Baroque style by bishop Kajetan Sołtyk between 1760 and 1762, giving it the two storey appearance shown in the 1777 painting Miodowa Street. It housed offices from the end of the 18th century and after the third partition of Poland in 1795 it housed the president of South Prussia. It was rebuilt after 1828 and partly dismantled in 1910.

It burned down during the 1939 Siege of Warsaw and demolished during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. It was rebuilt to designs by Ludwik Borawski and Wenceslas Podlewski between 1948 and 1950 as the headquarters of PZL, using the painting as a source.

Text adapted from “Kraków Bishops Palace, Warsaw” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pałac Biskupów Krakowskich w Warszawie ranks #3,972 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #147 of the 366 mapped in Poland. Founded 1622, it is older than 30% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 580 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. 44 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Warsaw, 2 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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