Paszkówka Palace

Paszkówka Palace
Paszkówka Palace
Location	Paszkówka, Lesser Poland Voivodeship; in Poland
Coordinates	49°56′26.142″N 19°41′7.7712″E
Built	1865
Architect	Piotr Bosio
Architectural style(s)	Gothic Revival
Location of Paszkówka Palace in Poland

Paszkówka Palace (Polish: Pałac w Paszkówce) is a 19th-century Gothic Revival Wężyków family palace located in the village of Paszkówka, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, to the south-west of Kraków. Today, the palace houses a luxury hotel.[1]

Architecture

Paszkówka Palace was designed by renowned, 19th-century Kraków architect Feliks Księżarski, inter alia the designer of Collegium Novum, the main edifice of the Jagiellonian University. The former building was only one storey high, with a battlement-finish staircase, which on the outside forms a tower.

The palace's architecture is drawn towards the Neo-Gothic architectural style, with elements of English Neo-Gothic. According to architectural critics, the palace fails to live up to all the forms of Neo-Gothic architecture and as such is branded "pseudo-" Gothic. The main distinct architectural properties of the building are that of a Mauretanian tower, avant-corps and pinnacles. Underneath the windows on the first storey are found mythological motifs.[2]

The 19th-century palace is located in a characteristic English landscape garden type. There, old lime, oak and hornbeam trees grow. Part of the palace-garden complex is Hotel "Spichlerz", which was raised on the authentic foundation of the former granary.[3]

References

1. "History of Paszkowka Palace - Pałac w Paszkówce". www.paszkowka.pl. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
2. o.o., StayPoland Sp. z. "History of Paszkówka". www.staypoland.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
3. "Romantyczny Hotel SPA w Krakowie - Pałac w Paszkówce". www.paszkowka.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2 September 2017.