Lubomirski Palace, Lviv
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Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
palace of Prince Stanisław Lubomirski was built in the 1760s to Jan de Witte
Jan de Witte
Jan de Witte was a Polish military engineer, professional officer and architect of Dutch descent. The author of, among others, the Dominican church in Lwów and the Carmelite monastery in Berdyczów , he was also the military commandant of the fortress at Kamieniec Podolski .-Personal...
's design on the site of several older houses (one of which had been the property of Szymon Szymonowic
Szymon Szymonowic
Szymon Szymonowic was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as "the Polish Pindar."-Life:Szymonowic studied in Poland , France and Belgium...
). The palace's main façade, featuring decoration by Sebastian Vessinger, is on the Market Square
Market Square (Lviv)
The Rynok Square in Lviv is a central square of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. It was planned in the second half of the 14th century, following granting city rights by Polish king Casimir III, who annexed Red Ruthenia...
. The two other fronts are considerably less conspicuous.
Between 1771 and 1821, the Lubomirski Palace served as the residence for Austrian governors of Galicia. It was purchased by a Ukrainian organization, Prosvita
Prosvita
Prosvita is a society created in the nineteenth century in Ukrainian Galicia for preserving and developing Ukrainian culture and education among population....
, in the 19th century and subsequently became a hotbed of nationalist activities. It was there that Yaroslav Stetsko
Yaroslav Stetsko
Yaroslav Stetsko was the leader of the Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists , from 1968 until death. In 1941, during Nazi Germany invasion into the Soviet Union he was self-proclaimed temporary head of the self-proclaimed Ukrainian statehood...
proclaimed Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
's independence several days after Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
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's invasion of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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.
Next door to the Lubomirski Palace is the former palace of the Roman Catholic archbishop
Archbishop
An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
s where King of Poland Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki died in 1673.