Brühl Palace, also called Sandomierski or Ossoliński Palace, stood on Piłsudski Square in central Warsaw. Lorenzo de Sent designed the original building for Crown Grand Chancellor Jerzy Ossoliński, and it was built from 1639 to 1642. Tylman Gamerski rebuilt it from 1681 to 1696, and Johann Friedrich Knöbel and Joachim Daniel von Jauch rebuilt it again in 1754 to 1759.
Heinrich von Brühl bought it in 1750, which gave it its best-known name. In 1787 it was sold for use as the Russian embassy, and in 1932 to 1937 it was adapted as the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
German forces deliberately and completely destroyed it on December 18, 1944. Reconstruction plans have been under way since around 2008, and the project is at the design stage.
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