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Klaus Zernack Colloquium 2025. Der Wiederaufbau geht weitere
Klaus Zernack Colloquium 2025. The reconstruction continues
Event by: Deutsch-Polnisches Haus, Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlin
Location: Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Majakowskiring 47, Berlin - Bezirk Pankow
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Klaus Zernack Colloquium 2025
The reconstruction continues.
The Saxon Palace and the western facade of Piłsudski Square - history and future
Date: November 18th, 2025, 6 p.m.
Location: Center for Historical Research
of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Majakowskiring 47, 13156 Berlin
(and in the stream on our Facebook page)
The reconstruction of the building complex that formed the western front of Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square until 1939, i.e. h. the Saxon Palace, the Brühl Palace and three tenement houses on Królewska Street, is managed by the company Pałac Saski sp., founded for this purpose. z o.o. carried out. According to the Law of August 11, 2021 on the preparation and implementation of investments in the field of reconstruction of the Saxon Palace, the Brühl Palace and the tenement houses on Królewska Street in Warsaw, the external architectural design of the restored buildings should correspond to the condition of August 31, 1939. However, the interiors of the buildings should meet the needs of future users and meet social expectations of the planned functions.
The project to rebuild the western facade of Piłsudski Square can confidently be called the largest construction project in Poland in historical architectural form since the post-war reconstruction of the capital and the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
What is the significance of the reconstruction of the Saxon and Brühl Palaces and the tenement houses on the Królewska Street for the history and urban planning of the Polish capital? What is the history of these buildings? What assumptions were made when preparing the reconstruction? What challenges does the implementation of the project entail?
Our Warsaw guests Maria Wardzyńska and Tomasz Markiewicz will address these and other questions at the last Klaus Zernack Colloquium 2025. The event will be moderated by Bernd Karwen (Polish Institute Berlin, Leipzig branch) and our director Prof. Dr. Igor Kąkolewski.
Lecturer:
Maria Wardzyńska
Coordinator for scientific issues at Pałac Saski GmbH
Graduate of the Archeology course at the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. Member of associations working on museology, historical architecture and monument protection, including ICOM Polska (within the International Council of Museums ICOM), INTBAU Polska (within the International Association for Traditional Construction, Architecture and Urban Planning INTBAU) and the Working Group of Guardians of Cultural Heritage of Warsaw “ZOK” (Zespół Opiekunów Kulturowego Dziedzictwa Warszawy).
She worked with the Museum of the Palace of King Jan III. in Wilanów and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. She is currently working professionally with Pałac Saski sp. z o.o. as a scientific coordinator.
Tomasz Markiewicz
Journalist, political scientist, historian and passionate Warsaw expert. Graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw, scholarship holder of the German Bundestag. He deals with the history of Warsaw in the 19th and 20th centuries. Author of numerous publications and exhibitions on Warsaw and German-Polish topics. He works at the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation in Warsaw as a project coordinator with a focus on historical projects and cooperates with the House of Encounter with History in Warsaw. Chairman of the association “Zespół Opiekunów Kulturowego Dziedzictwa Warszawy” (ZOK, Working Group of Guardians of Warsaw's Cultural Heritage), one of the first independent social organizations in Warsaw after 1981, which is committed to the preservation of Warsaw's monuments and the reconstruction of important historical objects.
This event was created in cooperation with the Polish Institute Berlin and its Leipzig branch.
The This year's series of events as part of the Klaus Zernack Colloquium of the Center for Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences is taking place in cooperation with the German-Polish House.
The reconstruction continues.
The Saxon Palace and the western facade of Piłsudski Square - history and future
Date: November 18th, 2025, 6 p.m.
Location: Center for Historical Research
of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Majakowskiring 47, 13156 Berlin
(and in the stream on our Facebook page)
The reconstruction of the building complex that formed the western front of Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square until 1939, i.e. h. the Saxon Palace, the Brühl Palace and three tenement houses on Królewska Street, is managed by the company Pałac Saski sp., founded for this purpose. z o.o. carried out. According to the Law of August 11, 2021 on the preparation and implementation of investments in the field of reconstruction of the Saxon Palace, the Brühl Palace and the tenement houses on Królewska Street in Warsaw, the external architectural design of the restored buildings should correspond to the condition of August 31, 1939. However, the interiors of the buildings should meet the needs of future users and meet social expectations of the planned functions.
The project to rebuild the western facade of Piłsudski Square can confidently be called the largest construction project in Poland in historical architectural form since the post-war reconstruction of the capital and the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
What is the significance of the reconstruction of the Saxon and Brühl Palaces and the tenement houses on the Królewska Street for the history and urban planning of the Polish capital? What is the history of these buildings? What assumptions were made when preparing the reconstruction? What challenges does the implementation of the project entail?
Our Warsaw guests Maria Wardzyńska and Tomasz Markiewicz will address these and other questions at the last Klaus Zernack Colloquium 2025. The event will be moderated by Bernd Karwen (Polish Institute Berlin, Leipzig branch) and our director Prof. Dr. Igor Kąkolewski.
Lecturer:
Maria Wardzyńska
Coordinator for scientific issues at Pałac Saski GmbH
Graduate of the Archeology course at the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. Member of associations working on museology, historical architecture and monument protection, including ICOM Polska (within the International Council of Museums ICOM), INTBAU Polska (within the International Association for Traditional Construction, Architecture and Urban Planning INTBAU) and the Working Group of Guardians of Cultural Heritage of Warsaw “ZOK” (Zespół Opiekunów Kulturowego Dziedzictwa Warszawy).
She worked with the Museum of the Palace of King Jan III. in Wilanów and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. She is currently working professionally with Pałac Saski sp. z o.o. as a scientific coordinator.
Tomasz Markiewicz
Journalist, political scientist, historian and passionate Warsaw expert. Graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw, scholarship holder of the German Bundestag. He deals with the history of Warsaw in the 19th and 20th centuries. Author of numerous publications and exhibitions on Warsaw and German-Polish topics. He works at the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation in Warsaw as a project coordinator with a focus on historical projects and cooperates with the House of Encounter with History in Warsaw. Chairman of the association “Zespół Opiekunów Kulturowego Dziedzictwa Warszawy” (ZOK, Working Group of Guardians of Warsaw's Cultural Heritage), one of the first independent social organizations in Warsaw after 1981, which is committed to the preservation of Warsaw's monuments and the reconstruction of important historical objects.
This event was created in cooperation with the Polish Institute Berlin and its Leipzig branch.
The This year's series of events as part of the Klaus Zernack Colloquium of the Center for Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences is taking place in cooperation with the German-Polish House.