Sapieha Palace () is one of the

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s in

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district of

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. Started by the powerful

Sapieha family The House of Sapieha (; ; ; ) is a Polish-Lithuanian noble and magnate family of Ruthenian origin,Энцыклапедыя ВКЛ. Т.2, арт. "Сапегі" descending from the medieval boyars of Smolensk and Polotsk. Vernadsky, George. ...

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, Chancellor of the

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, was built in

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

Hôtel particulier () is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a ...

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

corps de logis In architecture, a ''corps de logis'' () is the principal or main block, or central building of a mansion, country or manor house, castle, or palace. It contains the rooms of principal business, the state apartments and the ceremonial or formal ...

'') 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

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(''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 The November Uprising (1830–31) (), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in Russian Partition, the heartland of Partitions of Poland, partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. ...

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. File:Warszawa Pałac Sapiehów 01.jpg, The explanatory plaque on the façade (in Polish) File:Warszawa sapiehow palais.jpg, Former garden elevation File:Nm16DSC 1274.jpg, A close-up of the coat of arms at the roof above the entrance File:WiKi_SapiehaPalaceWarsaw20110712.jpg, The front of the Palace at dusk - July 2011

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History

18th century

19th century

20th century

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