Palace in Obory (Konstancin)
| Obory Palace | ||
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| Creation time : | 1680 | |
| Castle type : | palace | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Place: | Obory | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 5 '6.8 " N , 21 ° 8' 41.3" E | |
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The palace in Obory (Polish: Pałac w Oborach ), a village that belongs to Konstancin-Jeziorna and thus the powiat Piaseczyński near Warsaw , was built in the Baroque style at the end of the 17th century . Today the listed magnate residence , which is about 4 kilometers west of the Vistula, is owned by the Polish Association of Literature and is used as an event location.
history
In the 15th and 16th centuries the town to which the present palace belongs was owned by the Obory family. In 1643 it was sold to the Koniecpolski family . In 1650 it belonged to Jan Wielopolski (presumably through his marriage to Aniela Febronia Koniecpolska). The proximity to the castle in Wilanów (approx. 10 kilometers away) favored contacts with the family of John III. Sobieski , and so Wielopolski married Marie-Anne de la Grande d'Arquien, a sister of Queen Maria Kazimiera Sobieska, in 1678 . Probably in the 1680s, Wielopolski had a brick, baroque palace with a mansard roof built in place of a former wooden mansion . Presumably the plan for the building came from Tylman van Gameren or one of his students. After the death of the landlord (probably Wielopolski died in his palace in Obory) the property fell to his son Franciszek in 1688.
Hieronim Wielopolski was the owner from 1738 to 1751. In the 1780s and 1790s it came under his widow, Urszula Wielopolska, nee. Potocka, for remodeling and renovation work on the building. After her death, Kasper Potulicki became the owner of the property. A chapel was built around 100 years later, and further alterations were made to the building based on designs by Władysław Marconi . At the turn of the 20th century, Maria Potulicka sold part of the Obory estate to her niece Maria Ogińska, b. Skórzewska. This land was soon parceled out and cultivated; the city of Konstancin, which is adjacent to the palace, was built. The Potulicki family remained in possession of the property until 1944, when it was expropriated by the German occupation authorities as a result of the Warsaw Uprising (members of the family actively participated in the fighting) in 1944 . After the war it was taken over into the Polish state treasury. In neighboring Słomczyn, the graves of the family can be found next to a cemetery chapel to this day.
Since the 1960s, the building has been operated as a so-called “House of Artistic Creation” by the Association of Polish Writers (Polish: Dom Pracy Twórczej Związku Literatów Polskich ) as a guest and event house. It is dedicated to the memory of Bolesław Prus . As a contact point for many writers of the time, the palace gained notoriety when the important Polish poet Antoni Słonimski wanted to visit the palace in the summer of 1976 and there was a serious accident on the access road; a few days later he died of the consequences of the accident.
Access to the palace is not possible outside of events. The palace is located in a spacious, tree-lined park, which is bordered on two sides by water.
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to other sources, the palace could also have been built earlier - according to designs by Tomasz Poncino (1600–1659).
- ↑ a b according to JS Majewski, Pałac, gdzie królowało piwo i poeci at Gazeta.pl Warszawa on October 9, 2009 (in Polish)
See also
literature
- Tomasz Lachowski: Konstancin. Obrazy z przeszłości (Konstancin. Pictures from the past) , Publisher Definition Design, ISBN 83-923130-5-4 , 2008, p. 8ff.
Web links
- For the history of the palace on the website of the operating company (in Polish)