Hollenders' Palace in Wrocław, Renaissance Revival palace in Wrocław, Poland.
Hollenders' Palace is a former palace on Międzyrzecka Street in Wrocław, built in 1886 in the village of Siedlec, then outside the city, on Fritz Hollender's estate. It stands in a bend of the Oława river within a landscape park, next to farm buildings. The rectangular, two-storey brick building has a four-sided mansard roof, a sandstone-banded ground floor, a four-column portico with steps, and corner turret bay windows.
The palace was built in 1886 in Siedlec, then a village near Wrocław, on the estate of Fritz Hollender. It stood in a bend of the Oława river amid a landscape park, next to farm buildings. Damaged by fire in 1996, it was restored after 2006 without the polygonal helmets of the corner turrets.
The name of the building recalls the Hollender family, a wealthy Wrocław family who made their social rise visible through this grand city residence. Private palaces in residential districts like this one were a clear sign of who held rank and standing in the city.
The building stands near South Park, in a residential part of the city that is easy to explore on foot. Taking a short walk through the surrounding streets gives a good sense of how the neighborhood developed during the same period.
Although the building is listed as an immovable monument, many visitors walk past it on their way to the nearby park without noticing it. The facade is best viewed from across the street, where the slight setback of the building allows a clearer view of its full width.
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