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Manor and park complex


manor house Koroszczyn

Address
Koroszczyn, Piłsudskiego 9

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

The manor house (palace) has a picturesque and irregular shape.It was designed in the spirit of the Italian Renaissance by the architect Henryk Marconi.

From the middle of the 19th century, it was referred to as a model residence for landowners. 

History

The village, originally called Koroszczyno and Koroszczyce, is first mentioned in historical records in the 15th century as the property of landed gentry. From the second quarter of the 16th century, probably until the end of the 18th century, it was owned by the Szujski knyazes, who had a wooden manor here (preserved until 1965). In 1836, Koroszczyn was bought by Franciszek Jerzy Kuczyński, president of the Civil Tribunal in Siedlce, husband of Tekla Kamionowska. The property remained in the hands of this family until the Second World War. Before 1860, the Kuczyński family built a new seat in Koroszczyn according to a design created by the well-known architect Henryk Marconi (when the construction of the manor house was completed, its design was published in 1860 in “Dziennik Politechniczny” (“Polytechnic Journal”).

After 1870, an outbuilding was built next to the manor house. The manor house of the Koroszczyński family was the first rural residence in the Lublin region that no longer followed the traditional Classicist architectural models. Its form was defined as an in-between form between the court and the palace, designed in the spirit of the Italian revival. This new type of house with an irregular, picturesque shape was built in the second half of the 19th century and was popularized then as an ideal seat for a “middle-income landowner”. The manor house has been preserved in an unchanged architectural form, with the exception of some alterations of the elevations made between 1912 and 1934 (these alterations included the removal of recesses with sculptures on the semi-circular closing of the lounge) and a partial remodelling of the interior layout. The last pre-war owner of the manor house was Leon Kuczyński, a farmer and an engineer, murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp together with his son. In 1944, the property was taken over by the State Treasury. The manor house became the seat of the management team of a State Agricultural Farm. In the 1970s, the manor house was renovated. In 1997, it was bought back by the daughter of the last owner.

Description

The manor complex is situated on the southern edge of the village. A neo-Renaissance mansion (or rather a palace) styled as an irregular Italian villa. The manor house is built on an elongated, multi-section, asymmetrical floor plan, with a single-storey central main body and perpendicular (partially) multi-storey side wings. Initially, there was a kitchen and a laundry room in the cellars of the northern wing. On the ground floor, the layout of the interior is asymmetrical, two-bay, with a small hall on the axis. Originally, the hall had an entrance leading to the parlour on the left and an entrance leading to the dining room in the garden area. In the southern wing, there is a magnificent lounge topped with a semi-circular arch in the front elevation. It is connected with the orangery (also known as a flower bed), with an exit leading to the garden terrace. In the norther part of the manor house, there were flats of the owners and their servants, as well as an office.

The attic contained guests’ rooms. The manor house is made of bricks and covered with plaster. Individual parts of the building have separate roofs with sheet metal cladding. The front (north-eastern) elevation is asymmetrical and consists of three parts. Its central part has the main entrance placed in an open arcaded vestibule, connected from the south with a small pillared arcade. The side wings have two storeys – the southern one is preceded by a semi-circular, one-storey avant-corps containing the lounge whereas the northern one is symmetrical and two-axial. In the garden-facing elevation, a five-axial, one-storey main body is flanked by slightly protruding avant-corpses in the side wings: from the south – two-storey and three-axial, and from the north – single-storey and two-axial. The southern elevation is symmetrical and three-axial and has an entrance in the middle; the northern elevation is irregular, with a porch supported by arcaded pillars. The elevations of the manor house are smooth, only the southern wing is divided by cordon cornices.

The window openings are rectangular and partially topped with a semi-circular arch, surmounted by surrounds or elaborate architectural fittings; on the first floor of the southern wing (and originally also on the ground floor of the garden-facing elevation of the northern wing), there are three-section Palladian windows, flanked from the front with bas-relief plaques depicting Fama (female personification of Fame) with putti. The characteristic embellishments of the picturesque body of the building include the protruding eaves of the roofs, supported on wooden corbels. Inside, in the lounge, there is a semi-circular recess separated by a pair of Tuscan columns and wall pillars. Near the manor house there is a former outbuilding, erected on a rectangular floor plan. It has a single storey and a multi-section, two-bay interior layout, with entrances in the longer elevations and a porch at the front. It is made of brick and plastered. It has a gable roof covered with eternit. 

The manor house and the outbuilding are surrounded by a small landscape park, with preserved traces of the front lawn. Behind the manor house, there is a garden lounge with a weeping ash tree and an access alley lined with chestnut trees. 

Access to the site is limited, private property.

compiled by Bożena Stanek-Lebioda, National Institute of Cultural Heritage, Branch Office in Lublin, 14 June 2016

Bibliography

  • Dwór wiejski, “Dziennik Politechniczny”, 1860, issue 6, p. 49, tables XXIII-XXV.
  • Jodłowski A., Dzieje obiektów zabytkowych z wybranych miejscowości północno-wschodniej części woj. lubelskiego, Biała Podlaska 2002, pp. 54-56.
  • Katalog Zabytków Sztuki w Polsce, volume VIII: Lubelskie Voivodeship, issue 2: Poviat (District) of Biała Podlaska, Warsaw 2006, p. 140.
  • Kurzątkowska A., Wzorcowy dom obywatelski Henryka Marconiego, “Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki”, 1975, issue 3, pp. 229-236. 
  • http://www.lubelskieklimaty.pl/atrakcje-turystyczne/dwory-dworki/862-koroszczyn-dwor-kuczynskich.html

     

Category: manor house

Protection: Register of monuments

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_06_ZE.2930