Odrzechowa Manor: An Estate House in Poland
Site at a Glance
- Popularity
- Very Low
- Country
- Poland
- Primary era
- Modern
- Eras represented
- Modern
- Civilizations
- Austrian Empire, Habsburg
- Site type
- Domestic
- Remains
- Manor House
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History
The Odrzechowa manor is a timber manor house in Odrzechowa, Poland, built for the Urbański family in 1803–1805 after a fire destroyed an earlier estate complex in 1790. The fire began in the distillery and consumed a complex that included a brewery, brickworks and farm buildings.
Nineteenth-century expansion and ownership
The manor was considerably enlarged during the nineteenth century. In the first half of the 1870s, the Odrzechowa estate belonged to Władysław Morawski; later, it belonged to his son Józef Morawski (1893–1969).
Farmsteads and agrarian reform
In the late 1920s, a separate farmstead in Hrendówka, in southern Odrzechowa, belonged to Helena Russocka and covered 749 hectares. In 1944, agrarian reform divided the Odrzechowa estate, and a state-run agricultural farm was established there.
Remains
The manor complex
Manor house
The manor is a single-storey timber building on an L-shaped plan, with a two-bay layout of two parallel room ranges. Its central front porch was first supported by two wooden posts, later replaced by a colonnaded portico, a roofed entrance supported by columns. The roof has four- and three-pitched sections. Its original shingle covering has been replaced by sheet metal.
Estate grounds and buildings
The wider estate included servants’ quarters, stables and barns, as well as an extensive park crossed symmetrically by an approach avenue. A watermill stood on the Czernisławka, and the estate also had a sawmill and two inns. Of the complex’s buildings, only the manor survives.
Russocka farmstead
The surviving building from the separate Russocka farmstead is a masonry manor granary. It now stands within the grounds of the Odrzechowa Experimental Station of the National Research Institute of Animal Production.
