Episcopal Palace - a palace in Lublin, located on Royal Street. The complex consists of two buildings connected by a chapel. One of them is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Church, the second home to the Archbishop.
The palace was built in the second half of the eighteenth century, and often changed their owners. At one time, there lived a colonel of the Polish troops, later the palace was owned by the imperial government, and later there was a post office.
In 1817, Paul Wagner and John Reynberger bought the building to house the headquarters here of the Masonic Lodge "Freedom of recovery." Also, the Company is located in the palace masons, and after 1822 - Criminal Court in Lublin. In the twenties of the nineteenth century, the government closed the Masonic lodges, after which the palace was handed over to the bishop as the headquarters in 1852. The whole complex was rebuilt several times. During this period the chapel was built, connecting the two buildings. The interior of the building is preserved parquet from oak and beech wood, stoves and wooden furniture. In 1880 the palace were oil lamps of sanctification - the first in Lublin.
Before the Second World War he lived in the palace Stefan Wyszynski - Polish cardinal, Archbishop-Metropolitan, which later became the Primate of Poland (also the Primate of the Millennium). After the war he lived in the palace of the bishop of Lublin, where a monument was unveiled in the courtyard of the palace in 1996. The second monument is located in the courtyard of the Catholic University. John Paul II in Lublin.
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