Sucha Castle
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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
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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
- Cultural institute in the castle
- Hotel / restaurant in the castle
- Lock on the parish website
- Lock on the circle site
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 46 ″ N , 19 ° 36 ′ 6 ″ E