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Palace in Wąsowo

Poland

Heritage status
immovable monument in Poland
Location
Wąsowo
Coordinates
52.3658°, 16.2487°
Links
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Palace in Wąsowo in Poland
Photo: Stanisław Nowak · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Pałac w Wąsowie is a historic palace in the locality of Wąsowo.

A Classicist palace with Baroque-Classicist elements, built in the years 1780–1786 for Sylwester Sczaniecki.

The palace is on a rectangular plan, of two storeys, with a high ground floor and a low upper floor, covered by a hipped roof. The front risalit is of three bays, with giant-order pilasters and a triangular pediment, in which coats of arms have been placed: Ogończyk of the Skórzewskis and Ossoria of the Sczanieckis. There are two side risalits, of one bay each. Inside, on the main axis, are the entrance hall, the staircase and the salon. The rest of the building now contains hotel rooms.

After the death of her parents, Emilia Sczaniecka, together with her siblings, came to live with her grandparents Anastazja and Sylwester Sczaniecki. As a result of the family division of property, the estate at Wąsowo and Brody went to Konstanty Sczaniecki. In time, in 1860, this estate was bought by Ludwik Lewinka. After some eight years he sold it on to a banker from Berlin, Richard von Hardt. Beside the palace stands the "new" palace of 1872.

Since 1995 the palace in Wąsowo has belonged to a private owner, who restored it (preserving the old architecture and decoration) and converted it into a hotel and restaurant centre.

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

In the rankings

Palace in Wąsowo ranks #8,577 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #345 of the 455 mapped in Poland. The nearest day-trip guide is Poznań, 47 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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