New Hrodna Castle

The New Castle in Hrodna, Belarus is a royal palace of Augustus III of Poland and Stanis?aw August Poniatowski in which the famous Grodno Sejm happened in 1793. New Hrodna Castle is 116 metres above sea degree. The royal house was constructed on the high financial institution of the Neman River at a little distance from the Old Hrodna Castle which had suffered brilliant dilapidation inside the aftermath of the Swedish career in the early 18th century. The two castles are joined by a 300-12 months-old arch bridge. The palace compound turned into designed by using Carl Friedrich Pöppelmann.

Construction became achieved between 1734 and 1751 beneath the supervision of numerous different Saxon architects, which include Johann Friedrich Knobel and Joachim Daniel von Jauch. The palace changed into finished below the route of Giuseppe de Sacco in 1789 and remained domestic for King Stanis?aw II August until 1797. Used as a clinic and barracks at some stage in maximum of the nineteenth century, the palace became renovated by using the Polish administration within the interwar length. Scarcely something is left of the authentic material of the castle, whose refined Rococo detailing vanished during World War II.