Unknown Primary Source Materials Related to the Wojtych Family of Gardeners in the Service of the Potockis of Krzeszowice, in 1831-1927

• Authors: Knapik Aleksandra

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Nieznane materiały źródłowe dotyczące rodziny Wojtychów, ogrodników na usługach Potockich z Krzeszowic w latach 1831-1927

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The article presents unpublished primary source materials from the holdings of the Cracow branch of the National Archiyes, the Garden Papers of the Wojtych Family from Krzeszowice, 1831-1927. The main document in the collection, the Family History, was written down by Jan Wojtych (1865-1942) in 1924. It chronicles the work of three generations of a family of gardeners, over a span of almost a hundred years, whose members in succession were in the seryice of the Potockis from Krzeszowice tending their gardens. The oldest member of the family, Franciszek, became the main gardener in the Krzeszowice estate of Count Andrzej Potocki on the strength of a contract signed on i January 1832. He brought numerous alterations into the grounds, starting, for example, the cultiyation of lemons and oranges, previously unknown in the area. He was supposed to begin the development of a landscape garden in the yicinity of the new pałace, which was eventually completed by his son Adolf, who had been working along with his father sińce 1849. Franciszeks successor was trained in the Jagiellonian Uniyersity s botanical garden in Cracow and in the famous nursery in Medyka. Particularly interesting are archiyal materials attesting to Adolf s education and training as gardener in the most important nurseries in Europę. Before taking his post at Krzeszowice, Adolf trained in Penzing, Vienna, Brunn am Gebirge, in Emil Liebigs company in Dresden, in the higher school of pomology - the Pomologisches Institut in Reutlingen in Wurttemberg, in the Platz & Sohn company in Erfurt, at the Ecole d’Horticulture de Versailles in Paris, and at the Horticulture Internationale in Brussels. The documents preseryed in this archiyal collection are a yaluable source of information on the high level of expertise of gardeners employed by an aristocratic family

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Modus. Prace z historii sztuki
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 17
• Pages: 51-73

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Knapik Aleksandra

• Instytut Historii Sztuki UJ