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Bishops Palace in Ciążeń

Poland

Style
Rococo
Architect
Giuseppe de Sacco
Heritage status
immovable monument in Poland
Location
Ciążeń
Coordinates
52.2083°, 17.8062°
Links
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Bishops Palace in Ciążeń in Poland
Photo: Takasamarasa · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl · Wikimedia Commons

Description

A late Baroque bishop's palace in Ciążeń, gmina Lądek, Słupca County. It was entered in the KOBiDZ register of monuments under number 22/335 on 17 January 1949. It was built in the years 1758 - 1768 for Bishop Teodor Czartoryski by the architect Józef Sacco and finished around 1810 in the Rococo style on the initiative of Bishop Ignacy Raczyński. The building has three storeys; on the ground floor there are six state rooms of similar size, without a central dominant feature such as a salon. On the ground floor and the first floor the rooms are arranged in two ranges, en enfilade. On the highest, residential storey the rooms are connected by a corridor.

The building is covered by a mansard roof. On the outside the ground floor is set apart from the mass of the building by a strongly accented cornice, with pseudo-risalits with delicate giant-order pilasters. The capitals of the pilasters and the pediments of the risalits are decorated with Rococo stucco work. The original plan envisaged connecting the palace with the outbuildings by means of galleries on both wings. Because of the death of the founder the project was completed only on the eastern side.

At the beginning of the 19th century Tsar Alexander I was a guest at the palace.

In 1818 the palace passed into private hands, to Colonel Wacław Gutakowski. In 1935 the estate was bought at auction by Wanda Gerlicz, wife of Jerzy Gerlicz. As a result of the post-war so-called land reform (the PKWN decree of 1944), the Gerlicz estate was taken over by the State Treasury without compensation, becoming state property.

Machine-translated from “Pałac biskupi w Ciążeniu” on the Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Bishops Palace in Ciążeń ranks #8,719 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #356 of the 455 mapped in Poland. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Poznań, 63 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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