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Palace complex, currently used as a hotel - Zabytek.pl

Palace complex, currently used as a hotel


palace Cieleśnica-Pałac

Address
Cieleśnica-Pałac

Location
woj. lubelskie, pow. bialski, gm. Rokitno

The complex comprises a palace, one of the most valuable examples of classicist residential architecture in the region, probably designed by the well-educated owner of the property, Andrzej Serwiński.

The outstanding architect Antonio Corazzi is thought to have been involved in designing the palace, too.

History

In the 15th century, the village was owned by nobility - the Andruszkiewicz family. In the 16th century, it was divided between several owners - the Cieleśnicki, Wojnów-Cieleśnicki and the Irzykowicz families. In 1576, Paweł Kochanowski and his wife Zofia Cieleśnicka sold some of their property in Cieleśnica to Ławryn Wojna (at that time, there was a small wooden manor house here). In 1630, the property belonged to Jerzy Grek, who sold it to Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł, stolnik (Pantler) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and Cieleśnica was incorporated in the county of Biała Podlaska. In 1810, Dominik Hieronim Radziwiłł sold Cieleśnica and Klonownica to Andrzej Serwiński, who was employed as a writer by Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Grand Hetman of Lithuania. With support of the Grand Hetman, Serwiński studied architecture and mechanics in Italy at the end of the 18th century. This enabled him to design the farm and industrial buildings in his estates on his own. Andrzej Serwiński was a correspondent member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Sciences and a member of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Poland. The palace in Cieleśnica was designed around 1830, probably by Andrzej Serwiński himself or with the help of Antonio Corazzi - a prominent architect. The orangery in the park was built in the same time period as the palace.After Andrzej Serwiński’s childless death in 1842, Cieleśnica was inherited by members of his extended family and was subsequently brought by Maria Serwińska in dowry to Henryk Rużyczka de Rosenwerth.

From 1919, Cieleśnica was owned by their son, Stanisław Rosenwerth-Rużyczka PhD, the initiator and shareholder of the aircraft factory in Biała Podlaska. During the First World War, the palace was destroyed by a fire, then in 1921-1928 it was renovated, partially remodelled and modernised according to the design of the famous architect Kazimierz Skórewicz, prepared with support of another architect - Romuald Gutt (among other things, the living room on the first floor was divided, a kitchen with an elevator was moved to the basement and a terrace was added next to the garden). In 1944, the property was nationalized – the land was taken over by a state farm, the palace was turned into a Creative Work House and then into a health centre and a kindergarten. After a period of being used as mentioned above, the palace was disused until 2004. Upon return to its heirs, it was sold to a private owner and was thoroughly renovated and restored between 2011 and 2013. 

Description

The palace complex is situated to the east from the village and consists of a palace and an orangery surrounded by a park. In the southern side of the park, there is a former grange complex with a preserved distillery from the third quarter of the 19th century and a granary from the beginning of the 19th century XX century and some other facilities. 

It is a Classicist palace, with its front elevation facing west.Two two-storey palace was erected on a square-like plan, on high cellars, with the representative storey (piano nobile) on the ground floor. The layout of the interior is symmetrical, two-bay in the central part, with a semi-circular, recessed portico. Behind the portico, there is an oval hall (from the north, it is adjoined by a staircase) and a rectangular dining room facing the garden. In the side parts, there are rooms of various sizes and functions, aligned in an unusual, four-bay enfilade. The brick walls of the palace are covered with plaster and topped with a hip roof with sheet metal cladding. The façade is symmetrical, five-axial with a recessed, avant-corps-like portico, with two pairs of Ionic columns, which support the entablature terminated with an attic wall.

The attic is filled with a frieze adorned with acanthus leaves, a pair of antithetically arranged griffins, vases and horns of plenty (cornucopia). On the axis of the portico, there is a wide glass door. Above the door, there is a window with semi-circular arches. In the corners of the façade and in the axes between the windows, there are Ionian pilasters.The garden-facing elevation features a pseudo-avant-corps divided by Ionic pilasters. On the ground floor, the pseudo-avant-corps has ‘French windows’ (portes-fenêtres), topped with triangular abutments, which lead to a granite terrace with mirrored stairs. All elevations are surmounted by an entablature with a box cornice. The basements, on the other hand, are covered with rustic bossages. The rectangular windows are surmounted by profiled surrounds. On the ground floor, the windows are topped with cornice segments. The window panels are partially filled with baluster railing. Inside, there are some preserved or partially reconstructed fragments of the old décor and furnishings.

Orangery. In the Classicist style. Built on an elongated hexagonal plan, with an     annex on the northern side. The orangery is made of brick and plaster. Its     multi-hipped roof has sheet metal cladding. The walls are fitted with high porte-fenêtre windows     with semi-circular arches. Between the windows, there are grooved Doric pilasters,     which support the reduced entablature.

The landscape park dates back to the beginning of 19th century. Originally, there were magnificent lawns in front of the façade and the garden-facing elevation, as well as a system of ponds. In the park, there are numerous multi-century trees (ash, black pines, oaks) and an acacia alley leading to the palace. 

The heritage site is accessible to the general public, currently a hotel.

compiled by Bożena Stanek-Lebioda, National Institute of Cultural Heritage, Branch Office in Lublin, 7 June 2016

Bibliography

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  • Baraniewski W., Kazimierz Skórewicz: architekt, konserwator, historyk architektury: 1866-1950, Warsaw 2000, pp. 174, 179.
  • Fijałkowski D., Kseniak M., Parki wiejskie Lubelszczyzny – stan, ochrona i rewaloryzacja biocenotyczna, Warsaw 1982, pp. 123-124.
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  • Katalog Zabytków Sztuki w Polsce, vol. VIII: Województwo lubelskie, issue 2: Powiat Biała Podlaska, Warsaw 2006, pp. 48-49.
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  • Łoski J., Cieleśnica, “Tygodnik Ilustrowany”, 1878, no. 108, p. 39.
  • Łoza S., Architekci i budowniczowie w Polsce, Warsaw 1954, p. 278.
  • Sroka J., Czy baron Rosenwerth wróci do Cieleśnicy?, “Słowo Podlasia”, 1993, no. 23, p. 1;4.

     

Category: palace

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_06_ZE.3611, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_06_ZE.26911