Sucha Castle

The Sucha Castle ( Polish Zamek Suski ) is located in Sucha Beskidzka in Powiat Suski in Polish Malopolska province . The castle is located in the Makov Beskids at the confluence of the Stryszawka and the Skawa in the old town of Sucha Beskidzka.

history

Castle at the beginning of the 18th century, by Louis Letronne after JF Bruder

The first castle in Sucha Beskidzka - only called Sucha until 1965 - was probably in the same place as the later castle. After it was burned down, the owners of Sucha at that time sold the complex in 1554 to Kasper Suski ( Gaspare Castiglione in Italian ), a goldsmith from Florence who had succeeded in advancing to the nobility at the Kraków royal court . By 1580 he had the architect Gregorius Kaczorowski built a Renaissance palace based on the model of the Kraków Wawel . The castle later came to the Komorowski and after the tripartite division of Saybusch became the seat of the Sucha state in 1608 . Piotr Komorowski had the castle rebuilt by the Flemish architect Paulus Baudaert . In 1665 it came to Jan Wielopolski as a dowry . It belonged to the Wielkopolski family until the middle of the 19th century , who sold it to the Branicki in 1846/1851 . Tadeusz Stryjeński had some of the interiors redesigned in Art Nouveau style. In 1914 the castle was inherited by the Tarnowski family , who managed it until 1939 before the last owner Juliusz Tarnowski fled to France after the German invasion of Poland . During the war there was a hospital in the castle. During the Soviet occupation of Poland in 1944, the Tarnowski were expropriated and the castle was nationalized. A grammar school was housed in it until 1975. After that it was used as a branch of the museum on the Kraków Wawel. Since 1991 part of the castle has been used as a cultural institute and another part as the Kasper Suski hotel and restaurant - named after the builder.

literature

Barański Mirosław: Sucha Beskidzka. Wyd. Studenckie Koło Przewodników Górskich “Harnasie”, Oddział Uczelniany PTTK w Gliwicach i Komisja Akademicka Zarządu Głównego PTTK, Gliwice 1982;
Harasimczyk JH, 2004, Sucha Beskidzka i okolice, Sucha Beskidzka, ISBN 83-87345-73-3 ;
Szablowski Jerzy: Zabytki sztuki w Polsce. Inwentarz topograficzny III. Powiat żywiecki. Województwo krakowskie. Wydawnictwo Państwowego Instytutu Historii Sztuki, Warszawa 1948, pp. 186-200, b. ISBN.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Sucha - collection of images, videos and audio files

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