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}}}}The Copper-Roof Palace () is an 18th-century palace in Warsaw, Poland. It takes its name (which is less precisely phrased in the original Polish) from the copper roof, a rarity in the first half of the 18th century. Since 1989 the palace has been a branch of the Royal Castle Museum.NEWS,www.zamek-krolewski.pl/index.php?page=1504, Remont i przebudowa paÅ‚acu Pod BlachÄ…, www.zamek-krolewski.pl, 2009-03-23, pl, dead,www.zamek-krolewski.pl/index.php?page=1504," title="web.archive.org/web/20100929155745www.zamek-krolewski.pl/index.php?page=1504,">web.archive.org/web/20100929155745www.zamek-krolewski.pl/index.php?page=1504, 2010-09-29, The palace is contiguous with Warsaw’s Royal Castle, and down a slope from Castle Square and Warsaw’s Old Town. Beneath the palace, a 17th-century lodge still exists.NEWS,um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=198&dz_id=2, The “Pod BlachÄ…” Palace, eGuide / Treasures of Warsaw on-line, 2009-03-23, 2006-02-18,um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=198&dz_id=2," title="web.archive.org/web/20060218162458um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=198&dz_id=2,">web.archive.org/web/20060218162458um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=198&dz_id=2, dead,

History

The original patrician house of Wawrzyniec Reffus was built in 1651–1656.NEWS,www.warszawa1939.pl/index.php?r1=zamkowy_blacha&r3=0, PaÅ‚ac pod BlachÄ…, www.warszawa1939.pl, 2009-03-23, pl, After its 1657 destruction by the army of George II Rákóczi, it was completely remodeled in 1698–1701 for Jerzy Dominik Lubomirski.Lubomirski built on a southern wing, perpendicular to the rest of the structure, and expanded the western elevation. Soon after, the palace came to be called Palais Martin after Lubomirski’s grandson.WEB,www.wiezowce.waw.pl/pod_bl_en.php, “Under the Metal Roof” Palace (Palac Pod Blacha), www.wiezowce.waw.pl, 2009-03-24, dead,www.wiezowce.waw.pl/pod_bl_en.php," title="web.archive.org/web/20140204041025www.wiezowce.waw.pl/pod_bl_en.php,">web.archive.org/web/20140204041025www.wiezowce.waw.pl/pod_bl_en.php, 2014-02-04, In 1720 the palace was rebuilt with the addition of a second, northern wing; and the interior was decorated with rococo paintings.After 1777 the palace passed into the possession of Poland’s last king, StanisÅ‚aw August Poniatowski, who hired the architect Domenico Merlini to redesign the rooms and to join the Royal Castle’s library wing to it. The King then presented the redecorated palace to his nephew, Prince Józef Poniatowski. The Prince was a successful commander in the 1794 KoÅ›ciuszko Uprising, and later one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s marshals. Under the Prince’s ownership, the palace became a center of Warsaw’s high-class social scene.When Warsaw became part of the Kingdom of Prussia after the Third Partition of Poland (1795), the palace became a Prussian Ministry of War headquarters.The Copper-Roof Palace was deliberately burned in 1944 by the occupying Germans. In 1948–1949 it was reconstructed, based on 18th-century paintings by Bernardo Bellotto.The palace is now a museum, part of Warsaw’s Royal Castle, and hosts a historic library and a permanent exhibit of oriental rugs.

Gallery

File:Warszawa, pl. Zamkowy 1-2 20170516 007.jpg|Aerial viewFile:Poland-01094 - Copper-Roof Palace (31183288606).jpg|Front viewFile:Palac pod Blacha 001.jpg|Southern facadeFile:Palac pod Blacha 002.jpg|Eastern facade, St. Anne’s Church on the left, Royal Castle on the rightFile:Kolekcja Kobierców Wschodnich PaÅ‚ac pod BlachÄ… 01.JPG|Exhibition of oriental rugsFile:Pokój sypialny PaÅ‚ac pod BlachÄ….JPG|Prince Józef Poniatowski’s bedroom

See also

• History of the Royal Castle in Warsaw
• Library at the Royal Castle, Warsaw

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Palace under the sheet metal roof|Copper-Roof Palace}}

• {{in lang|pl}} PaÅ‚ac pod BlachÄ… www.zamek-krolewski.pl/?page=1212

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