A palace from 1778-1779, a former wine shop and piano factory, since 1963 a music school.
Velthusen Palace is a Baroque-Neoclassical palace on the corner of White Eagle Square in Szczecin, at the junction of Staromłyńska and Łaziebna streets. Since 1963 it has housed the Feliks Nowowiejski School Complex of Music, so it is admired mainly from the outside.
The palace was built in 1778-1779 by the Dutch industrialist and merchant Georg Christian Velthusen, who had lived in Szczecin since 1769.
At first it housed a wine shop and a wine store. In the first half of the 19th century a side wing was added along what is now Łaziebna Street. In 1874-1920 the piano factory of Georg Wolkenhauer operated here, hence the second name, Wolkenhauer House.
Until 1944 the building housed the Pomeranian Provincial Bank. The palace was bombed on 21 April 1943.
It was rebuilt in 1959-1962. The building is entered in the heritage register. Nearby stand the Palace of the Pomeranian Landschaft and St Peter and St Paul's Church.
This is a two-storey building with a basement, a high plinth and a ceramic roof, whose decoration lies between Baroque and Neoclassicism.
The façade and the side wing are decorated with Corinthian pilasters, rusticated corners, window surrounds and panels with festoons beneath the first-floor windows. In the lintels of the first-floor windows are busts of 20 Polish and foreign composers, and before the war there were busts of philosophers there. The tympana show scenes connected with the grape harvest and the transport of barrels, which refers to the profession of the first owner.
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