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Margrabska house - Zabytek.pl

Margrabska house


tenement house 2nd half of the 13th c. Kraków

Address
Kraków, Rynek Główny 47

Location
woj. małopolskie, pow. Kraków, gm. Kraków

An impressive house and on the Royal Route; its name is attributed to its 16th-century owner, Margrave Zygmunt Myszkowski.

One of the four palaces in Rynek Główny. The building has been remodelled many times, but its main body and style has been preserved to this day.

History

The building of mediaeval origin, built in the second half of the 13th century (one of the first brick houses in Kraków). It was enlarged over the following two centuries to become the largest residential building in the main market square. Originally, it was the property of the Sandomierz mayor, Witek. In 1312 it was confiscated by King Władysław the Elbow-High. At the end of the 14th century, the building housed a mint.  Next, Seweryn Boner bought the house from the Kisling family, mint clerks. He sold it to brothers Piotr and Margrave Zygmunt Myszkowski. During ceremonial arrivals of different monarchs, a decorated triumphal gate was installed between the Margrabska house and the Under the Negroes house. In the first quarter of the 17th century, the building was remodelled into an early-Baroque palace-like residence (in 1785 only the following were considered palaces in the market square: Spiski, Krzysztofory, Under the Rams, and Margrabski). In the second quarter of the 18th century, during the ownership by the Wielopolski family (from 1727), the residence underwent further upgrades and alterations. A new staircase was built, and the building was covered by a high, multi-pitched roof. The property was owned by, among others, Franciszek Wielopolski, the first mayor of Kraków. The Margrabska house, managed by Jan Szaniecki, in the 1780s was converted into an inn (tavern) for noble guests called Under Providence (A la Providence). Tadeusz Kościuszko stayed here for a night in 1792. The function remained for long. During the existence of the Duchy of Warsaw, the inn was rented by Piotr Lipiński. In 1814 he purchased the place and converted it into the Dresden Hotel in 1816. Stanisław Moniuszko lived here (1858). During his meeting with Ambroży Grabowski, Józef Kremer and Lucjan Siemieński, they flirted with the idea of a new opera performance about Casimir the Great (Rokiczana) with Józef Korzeniowski’s libretto (never completed). The hotel was considered quite modern; it ran its own café and billiard parlour. In 1876 the hotel was purchased by Antoni Ziembiński. The confectionery shop run by Jan Piasecki that operated in the building (from 1915) advertised itself with a colourful stained glass made at S.G. Żeleński’s studio. A major change was the conversion into a bank in the 1920s (National Economy Bank).

Description

A two-storey house with a high, multi-pitched roof. In the opinion of M. Rożek, “a rare example of influences of Dresden architecture on Kraków’s art.” The late Baroque façade from the first half of the 18th century has been preserved; the rich, dynamic forms of the sculptural decoration of the portal and window framing are juxtaposed against the flattened surface of the walls.  In the years 1814-1816, the building was rebuilt into the Dresden Hotel designed by Szczepan Humbert. The 1864 renovation did not change the function of the building. Upgrades that followed in the next decades were limited to dividing the interior into smaller rooms. In the years 1920-1922, Teodor Hoffmann converted the building into a bank (National Economy Bank). The entire project closed with retrofitting in 1934. Further renovations and interior conversions took place in 1951 and between 1994 and 1997. Piasecki’s confectionery store has been turned into an elegant café.

The site is partly available: freely from the outside but inside only during the working hours of the stores and institutions.

Author of the note Roman Marcinek, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Kraków 20/04/2016

Bibliography

  • Dyba O., Kraków. Zabytki architektury i budownictwa, Warszawa 2007
  • Encyklopedia Krakowa, Warszawa – Kraków 2000.
  • Fabiański M., Purchla J., Historia architektury Krakowa w zarysie, Kraków 2001
  • Komorowski W., Sudacka A., Rynek Główny w Krakowie, Ossolineum 2008
  • Komorowski W., Pałace miejskie Krakowa 1. połowy XIX w., “Teki Krakowskie”, vol. XIII
  • Rożek M., Przewodnik po zabytkach i kulturze Krakowa, Kraków 1993
  • Marcinek R., Kraków, Kraków 2001

Category: tenement house

Architecture: nieznana

Building material:  brick

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_12_BK.194036, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_12_BK.426478