Pałac Koźminiecki

A very nice place. I hope that there will be someone who will want to give him a second life :)

This manor house was probably erected after 1759 for Józef Kiełczewski and his wife Salomea née Walewska. In later years, classical wall polychromes were made in the representative parts of the ground floor. The present shape of the palace is due to the reconstruction carried out in the years 1906-1907 by the efforts of Maria née Mielęckie and her husband, an industrialist, Tadeusz Hantke. The younger architect, Jan Heurich, was in charge of all the works. He was a famous Warsaw architect, he built country mansions, churches and public buildings. At that time, he was considered the precursor of modernized classicism. It was then that a number of changes were made to the palace and neoclassical porticoes were added. The manor house is made of brick, one-story, partially with a basement. A mansard roof, tiled with dormer windows in decorative wooden frames, which were renovated in 1907 to resemble the original ones. The basement and the kitchen on the ground floor are covered with a barrel vault with lunettes, while the remaining part of the ground floor and the attic are covered with a wooden ceiling with a soffit. The manor house was built on a rectangular plan with the front façade facing south-east. In its central part there is a portico with two pairs of Ionic-style columns covered with a gable roof, in the lower part of which there are decorative coffers. On the north side, the whole façade is completed by a neoclassical portico with 4 columns, through which you enter the main hall, from which internal stairs lead to the attic. On both sides of the hall there is a symmetrical kitchen with a dining room, a living room and a bedroom with an alcove and a bathroom. Plastered facades, with preserved elements of architectural decoration, varied with cornices and pilasters. Window and door openings are flat vaulted with decorative bands. Next to the manor house, in the second half of the 18th century, a storehouse on a square plan was built with a tiled roof. It has not survived to this day - it was demolished in the 1950s. However, a neo-gothic outbuilding from the end of the 19th century, built by the efforts of the Mielęcki family, has been preserved. In the interwar period it was inhabited by a gardener. Currently renovated, maintaining the architectural elements. According to the map from 1940, the court yard was laid out on a narrow rectangle with two entrances from the side of Złotniki. From the old buildings, only a neo-Gothic coach house from the end of the 19th century, adapted for a workshop and a granary from the same period, made of brick, two-story with a usable attic remained. The entire manor buildings were complemented by a brick cowshed, barn and a shed for fertilizers. There was also a chicken coop and a small greenhouse adjacent to the park. Until 1945, the farm part also consisted of a colony of farm houses located on the road to Pietrzyków. Currently, the surroundings of the manor house have improved due to the works carried out in the park: alleys were paved, lighting was installed, and a stylish fence was surrounded from the side of the road to Złotniki.