History of the site

The area of the Kocmyrzów village was a private property already in the Middle Ages. Reference to Kocmyrzów from the 1629 conscript register of the Kraków province says that the owner of the village was Stanisław Witowski. In 1789 the locality had 146 inhabitants, 26 houses, and one farm without a garden. There were also an inn and a manor house. In 1791 the village was held by Antoni Straszewski and had a population of 142 and 28 chimneys. In the first quarter of the 19th century, Michał Paszkowski owned Kocmyrzów. In 1825 Paszkowski’s daughter brought the village as a dowry when she married Kazimierz Sadowski.

In 1880 there were 23 houses in the commune area of the village and 42 buildings in the manor area. Kocmyrzów had 245 inhabitants and was owned by Honorius Caetani, duke of de Teano, and Hersyla Lovatelli. In the interwar period, until 1946, the Radwan family owned the complex. The building was developed in two stages. The older (west) wooden section was probably built at the beginning of the 19th century, perhaps by Mikołaj Paszkowski, as a modest and less elegant building without any stylistic qualities. The brick wing was probably added by Kazimierz Sadowski in the second quarter of the first half of the 19th century (it is marked on a cadastral plan from 1848). The older (wooden) part was transformed in the second half of the 20th century. Three apartments were arranged, the windows were replaced, and a porch was added to the south. The brick (east) part was only slightly altered; two extra living quarters were made from the north. In the post-war period, the manor house was the seat of the Collective National Council, the Commune Public Library in Kocmyrzów and the Rural Housewives’ Club.

Description of the site

The building of the former manor house is located in the east part of the village by a local road linking the centre of Kocmyrzów and Czernichów. It is about 2 km away from the middle of the village. The site is located on an elevation inclined towards the south, on the north side of the road to Czernichów, about 250 m from it. It stands in the middle of the non-existent manor and farm complex developed on a plot of land in the shape of an irregular, elongated polygon. In the north and south part of the complex, there were farm buildings, and in the vicinity of the manor house, there was a small landscape park, the present-day remains of which are a dozen false acacia trees and three almost 200-year-old linden trees growing in the west part of the park (today in the fields).

From the south, the complex was closed by a road and a fish pond (still there) located below the house, about 150 m away. The west part of the building is oriented towards the east-west axis, and the east part towards the north-south axis.

The house’s body is massive, composed of two cuboidal sections perpendicular to each other. The west part is a one-storey structure with an uninhabitable loft. Under the centrally located vestibule, there is a basement containing two small chambers. The entrance to the vestibule is preceded by a rectangular porch and stairs (under them, entrance to the basement). The east section has a single level and an uninhabitable loft. It is set on a high base levelling significant terrain differences. Entrance to the basement is under the landing. At the corner of the north part, there is a rectangular porch from the west. The roofs are average in proportion to the height of the walls. A gable roof over the west part, an elongated hipped roof over the east part.

The manor and the relics of the park are not fenced; accessible from the outside.

Author of the note Grzegorz Młynarczyk, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Kraków 08/2015

Bibliography

• T.Śledzikowski, Karta ewidencyjne zabytków, Kraków 1996
• P.Libicki, Dwory i pałace wiejskie w Małopolsce i na Podkarpaciu, Poznań 2012, p. 171