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The Royal Castle in Warsaw was a seat of the Sejm and Senate of the first Rzeczpospolita and also an official residence of the monarchs in Warsaw. It contained the offices of a number of political institutions, arranged around a central courtyard. The castle is a symbol of Polish statehood and history.
- Royal University of Warsaw
- Main School
- Imperial University of Warsaw
- In The Early 20th Century
- World War II
- After 1945
The beginning of the University is related to two schools of the Napoleonic epoch – the Law School founded in 1808 and the School of Medicine founded one year later. Both of these schools were transformed into two important faculties of the University as time went by. They were designed to educate specialists needed in every-day life of the Duchy o...
The defeat of the November Uprising, one of the major forms of the Polish struggle for independence of the Polish people in which university students took part in great numbers, determined the fate of the university, i.e. that it would be closed. Only after fifteen years from its creation, the University ceased to exist and one year later the major...
The participation of the Main School students in the January uprising, which was the next great patriotic rebellious bid resulted in the university being closed in 1869 and being replaced by the Imperial University of Warsaw – a university with the Russian language as the language of instruction. The Imperial University of Warsaw continued in exist...
The German authorities gave their permission for the creation of the University of Warsaw with the Polish language as the language of instruction. The solemn inauguration of the University took place on 15th November 1915 in the presence of the German governor, general Hans Hartwig von Beseler. The old emblem of the University was restored and the ...
After the Hitler’s army had seized the capital, University of Warsaw, just like other universities, was closed. A great number of employees, however, did not stop their classes despite the threat of death. Thus the secret university which was unique in the whole world where classes took place both in private apartments and schooling establishments ...
The University resumed its operation in 1945. Starting in the 1940s the imposed cult of Stalin took place. After the 1956 thaw an authentic academic life emerged. Freedom in education and research appeared in most fields of instruction. The increasing critique of the political system in Poland led to student riots in 1968 which were put down by the...
The architecture of Warsaw has influenced and reflected the history of Polish architecture. The city of Warsaw features prominent buildings in a variety of styles by many important architects. Warsaw's palaces, churches and mansions display a richness of color and architectural details. Buildings are representatives of nearly every European ...
The main purpose of the castle is to teach people about its rich history and its significance to Polish culture. It does this by having different museums inside, like the Royal Castle in Warsaw museum. Because it’s such an important cultural site, both locals and tourists visit it.
Warszawa – Royal Castle. History. In the second half of the 13th century, during the reign of the prince of Mazovia Boleslaw II, on the bank of the Vistula river, at the estuary of the Kamionka river, a wood-earth hillfort was built. During the time of Bolesław’s successor, Prince Trojden, the fortifications of the stronghold and town were ...
At war's end, Warsaw was 95% destroyed. Already during the 1939 invasion some 13% of its buildings had been bombed. More destruction took place during the 1943 Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After the latter uprising and evacuation of the town's residents, Hitler ordered the dynamiting of all buildings left standing.
Plaque on Warsaw University's Casimir Palace, commemorating 1866–68 student Bolesław Prus In 1840–41, the next pavilion was built, designed by Antonio Corazzi , originally to be a secondary school and later serving as the seat of the "Main School" (i.e., Warsaw University ).
