History

At the beginning of the 13th century, Pisary was the property of the Benedictine monastery from Tyniec.

In the 14th century, until the end of the pre-partition era, the owners of Pisary were the Pisarski family represented by two coats of arms: in the Middle Ages descending from the Toporczyk family, and in the second half of the 16th century with the Szreniawas. In 1710 the Pisarski family sold part of the village to the bishop of Łuck, Bogusław Rupniewski, and another part, together with a storage building, to the Dobrzański-Trembecki family. The Pisarskis stayed in the manor until the partitions. After the death of Anna Żeleńska née Pisarska, Pisary became the property of the Sołtyk family. Anastazja Sołtykowa née Rudnicka was forced to sell the property after she had accumulated a massive debt. The buyer was Józef Grünbaum and the co-owner was Samson Frankl. In 1848 they sold the Pisary estate to Katarzyna Potocka from nearby Krzeszowice.

The property remained in the hands of the Potocki family until 1933 when it was purchased by Antoni Lewalski, an economic activist and entrepreneur, director of the Zieleniewski factory, president of the board or board member of about twenty joint-stock companies and a member of the Rotary Club in Kraków.

Undoubtedly, the most valuable and the oldest of the surviving structures of the estate is the storage building (“lamus”). It is a former Renaissance tower mansion from the 17th century.  Originally, it was the main building of the complex: it was a residential seat and a treasury. Valuables were kept there, and in the event of an attack, it was a shelter and provided defence opportunities. Later, when the manor house was built, the storage was used for commercial purposes and served as a warehouse. After the post-war parcelling of the property, it was used as a residential building for some time. Neglected, it turned into a ruin in the 1960s. It was renovated in the second half of the 1960s. In the 1980s, it housed the Lamus Gallery. Currently, it is not in use. Besides the storage, one of the brewery buildings, a granary and a barn have survived: all from the first half of the 19th century. In the 19th century, the brewery buildings were turned into a farm stable; after WW2, they were used as warehouses for the Herbapol company and a vaccination station against foot-and-mouth disease.

Description

The storage is located in the north-west part of the village, on the left side of the road from Pisary to Nawojowa Góra. The property in the second building line, approx. 70m from ul. Dworska. 

It is a multi-storey Renaissance building of brick, with basement, erected on a square-like plan. The ground floor has one room covered with a barrel vault with lunettes; the entrance leads through a massive door embedded in a stone portal. Originally, a similar room was also on the first floor (now partitioned into several smaller ones). The first floor is accessible via wooden stairs running along the entire width of the front (northern) façade and leading to a picturesque wooden porch, also stretching across the entire width of the wall.

The building is covered with a shingled hipped roof; under the eaves, there is a profiled cornice and a sgraffito strip with a ribbon motif. On the south side, the corners of the storehouse are reinforced with two massive buttresses.

The granary building and the barn are north of the storehouse (on the other side of the road). In the past, two other farm buildings were connected to the granary: a barn and a cowshed; together, they were arranged in a horseshoe layout. The cowshed, which was the east wing of the complex, burnt down in the 1960s.

The granary is a two-storey, rectangular building with a stone portal, a walk-through hall, a sail-vault and a hipped roof.

At the end of the village, on the east side, about 200 meters west of the storage, there is a long, one-storey building of the former brewery. Until recently, there were two buildings but one was demolished; the other still exists, unfortunately it is falling into decay. Like the granary, the brewery has sail-vaulted ceilings and represents the late classicist style. Long skylights in the raised roof planes constitute an original detail.

The storage is accessible to visitors from the outside. The plot is not fenced. The interiors were open to visitors in 2009 during the 11th edition of the Heritage Days.

The brewery building, like the storage, is accessible from the outside. Access is hindered by very high, unmown grass and a small section of mesh from the road side. All openings are boarded up. The preserved buildings of the grange and the park are private property; they are not accessible and are tightly fenced.

Author of the note Grzegorz Młynarczyk, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Kraków 07-2015

Bibliography

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• Zalitacz J. “Uzdrowisko Krzeszowice i okolice”; 2006; p.180-181