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Czerniejewo Palace

Poland

Heritage status
cultural property protection in Poland
Location
Czerniejewo
Coordinates
52.4342°, 17.4892°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Czerniejewo Palace in Poland
Photo: Krzysztof Dudzik-Górnicki · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Pałac w Czerniejewie is a historic palace in Czerniejewo, erected in the years 1771-1780 or 1790 for Jan Lipski to a design by the architect Ignacy Graff; it stands on the northern edge of the town, connected to it by a long avenue. There was probably a castle on this site earlier.

The palace was rebuilt many times. The first rebuilding, from the years 1789-1790 and later, probably carried out to a design by Kamsetzer, gave the palace a Classicist character. In 1800 a four-column portico with a tympanum was added, projecting considerably in front of the line of the elevation. The portico allowed a covered approach right up to the entrance and added grandeur to the residence. Other elements of this rebuilding were a thorough rearrangement of the interiors. At that time there was created, on the main axis of the palace, on the ground floor, a salon supported on columns (sala terrena, the so-called Pompeian grotto according to the description on a plan of 1911), and above it, on the first floor, a two-storey ballroom covered by a flattened (false) dome and decorated with pilasters. These changes led to the addition of a risalit on the garden façade of the palace.

The rebuilding of the years 1926-1928, carried out on the commission of Count Zygmunt Skórzewski by the architect Juliusz Nagórski, consisted of adding the east wing of the palace and connecting the main building with the eastern outbuilding by means of a gallery. The western outbuilding was connected to the palace by a gallery in the years 1979-1984 (or 1980-1983), during restoration and renovation works.

The landscape park (13 ha), originally laid out as a French garden and from the 19th century as an English garden, has avenues of lime and hornbeam and a pond. Deep in the park is the building of a pheasantry from the beginning of the 19th century, later converted into a hunting lodge.

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

In the rankings

Czerniejewo Palace ranks #8,142 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #324 of the 455 mapped in Poland. The nearest day-trip guide is Poznań, 38 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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