Lipie Manor House: An Eighteenth-Century Residence in Poland
Site at a Glance
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- Eras represented
- Early Modern
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- Domestic
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- Manor House
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History
Lipie Manor House is an eighteenth-century wooden residence in Lipie, Kłobuck County, Poland, built for the Poniński family.
Poniński and Steinhagen ownership
Count Klemens Poniński owned the estate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Because of heavy debts, it passed in 1829 to Joachim Kempner, a wealthy Jewish merchant from Warsaw. The next owner was Maurycy Mittelstaedt. After Mittelstaedt’s daughter married Aleksander Steinhagen, the property passed to the Steinhagen family, manufacturers of Westphalian origin. Westphalia is a historical region in western Germany, and the family worked in the paper industry.
Twentieth-century change and survival
In the early twentieth century, Aleksander Władysław Steinhagen inherited the estate, remodelled the manor house and modernized the farm. After the Second World War began, the building became the headquarters of the German occupation administration. In the postwar years, its rooms were used in turn by an agricultural cooperative, a cinema and a preschool.
The manor was scheduled for demolition in 1974, but Professor Wiktor Zin helped save it. It was later sold and is now privately owned and used as a residence.
Remains
The manor house
The single-storey timber building has a four-column portico at its front, a roofed entrance supported by columns. Its central section is covered by a wooden mansard roof, which has two slopes on each side, with the lower slope steeper; dormer windows project from the roof. The other sections have roofs with sloping sides that meet at a ridge.
Park and grounds
A park surrounds the house and contains several ponds. It also includes a water tower that formed part of the manor’s water-supply system. The entrance drive passes through a row of linden trees.
