History

According to the information contained in the Catalogue of Art Heritage in Poland, the farm buildings were built here around the middle of the 19th century. At that time, there was a brick, two-storey granary there, on a rectangular floor plan, covered with a gable roof.

The estate belonged to the Sokolnicki family. Before the Second World War, it belonged to brothers Tytus and Bogdan Wilski, who also owned a farm in Mała Wola and an estate in Wilkowice. According to oral accounts, the administrator of the manor house was Wiktor Rutkowski - a bankrupt nobleman and a holder of a coat of arms. The then existing buildings included 6 “farm hands’ living quarters”, in which 12 families lived. Each family had only one room; There was also a cowshed, a stable, a sheepfold, a granary, a smithy, a carpenter’s workshop, a sawmill and a distillery.

Tytus Wilski married the daughter of his uncle, Stefan Wilski, who was the owner of the Rogów estate. He was known as a successful landowner. In 1939, Tytus joined the army and was killed in the first days of the war. He was buried in Wysokienice. Mrs. Wilska remarried and became the wife of Mr. Szulczewski - a Pole from the Poznań region. The estate was under his management throughout the occupation. After 1945, Mrs. Szulcewska left with her husband, and the property was parcelled out. From 1949, there was an eight-, and later three-grade school in the manor house. The remaining land next to the manor house was transferred to the Association of Agricultural Cooperatives.

Before the Second World War, the park was surrounded by a wooden fence. There was an orchard directly adjacent to the park and fish ponds on the other side. The manor house has fallen into disrepair and is deserted today.

Description

The manor house is situated on the edge of the village of Wielka Wola, at the asphalt road leading from Czerniewice (3 km) to the village of Mała Wola (4 km).

The present-day manor house is made of brick and clad with bituminous felt layers (formerly sheet metal). The parquet floors existing in the past have been replaced with plank floors. The building is one-storey, on a high basement, with a two-storey avant-corps in the second axis, where the main entrance was situated.

 Between 1974 and 1975, the manor house was renovated. As part of that renovation, the turret was dismantled, the cornices were removed and the sheet metal cladding was replaced with bituminous felt layers.

The manor house is surrounded by a park of historical significance with numerous specimens of old trees. They include poplars, birches, beeches, oaks, maples, linden trees, spruces and pines. However, the park is unkempt and neglected today.

Private property. The manor house can be viewed from outside.

Compiled by Aleksandra Preczyńska, student of the University of Łódź, field of study: history of art 16 August 2019

Bibliography

• Registry of green areas of historical significance, compiled by W. Włodarczyk, S. Łempicki, H. Gomza in July 1984, Łódź