Manor houses of Polish nobility
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A manor house of Polish nobility is called dwór[1] or dworek in Polish.
The
Architectural history
During the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish nobility built manor houses in the countryside. This was a preferred location for one's residence, as the nobility, following the sarmatism ideology, felt contempt for the cities, even though members of this elite also had residences in a major city or town (but, these were large lateral apartments rather than town houses).
The vast majority of such countryside manors in the beginning were made of wood.[2][3] They tended to fall into two types: rare palaces of the magnates, and smaller, one-story houses, in which wood was the most common building material.[3] Starting with the Renaissance period, mansions built with masonwork appeared, often designed to enhance their defensive characteristics.[2][4] Although early on, such mansions were often designed as defensive mini-fortresses, over time - around the baroque period - the defensive function began to disappear.[2][4]
The smallest ones had 2-4 rooms. Larger ones would have many more, including guest rooms and a chapel. Magnates' palaces would even boast their own
Early renaissance mansions were based on a rectangular design, with corner chambers (alkierze) and a
The dwór style design was also popular in the Second Polish Republic (Polish: styl narodowy or styl dworkowy), and is still inspiring some modern Polish manors.[2][4]
See also
- Houses in Poland
- Polish architecture
References
- ^ Note: Here dwór, literally "court", corresponds to the use of the word "Court" in the names of British manor houses
- ^ Interia Encyklopedia
- ^
- ^ a b c d e f (in Polish) Dwór, WIEM Encyklopedia
- ^ a b (in Polish) Dwór, PWN Encyklopedia
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