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Sieniawa Palace

Poland · 18th century

Founded
c. 1800
Heritage status
immovable monument in Poland
Location
Sieniawa
Coordinates
50.1711°, 22.6086°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Sieniawa Palace in Poland
Photo: Korona b · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Pałac w Sieniawie was built by the Grand Hetman of the Crown Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski at the beginning of the 18th century. It acquired its present appearance during the rebuilding of the years 1881–1883 carried out by the Czartoryskis.

In the years 1664–1680, beside the grounds of today's park and palace, Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski began to lay out a fortress of a defensive character. It had a square plan with four earthen bastions at the corners. There was also a wooden residential manor, unidentified today.

At the beginning of the 18th century the founder's son, Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski, laid out a park here and in the years 1718–1720 built an orangery. After a rebuilding the orangery began to be called, from 1726, the summer palace. By the end of the 18th century the little palace had been rebuilt at least three times. At the beginning of the 19th century its appearance was described by Leon Dembowski in the little work "W moich wspomnieniach" as follows: the palace of Sieniawa was of masonry, without an upper floor, and contained at that time, besides a huge entrance hall, one large drawing room and several rooms forming the apartment of the prince and princess; in the hall a huge organ had been set up, and in this hall meals were commonly eaten.

In the drawing room a few English caricatures and a great many engravings, depicting the valiant deeds of the Austrian army in the campaign against the French, were the only ornaments. In one of the corners a billiard table was placed. The owners of the palace were by then already the Czartoryskis.

In the years 1881–1883 a rebuilding was carried out to a design by Bolesław Podczaszyński. Upper floors were added above both wings and the palace acquired the appearance preserved to this day and its late Baroque character. It had 36 rooms and a cubic volume of 2088 m³.

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

In the rankings

Sieniawa Palace ranks #6,238 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #227 of the 455 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1800, it is older than 12% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 757 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,363 times in the last 60 days, more than 64% of the atlas. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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