Zamek Górków i Opalińskich w Sierakowie

• Authors: Skuratowicz Jan

Title variants

EN

The Górkas and Opalińskis Castle in Sieraków

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The author recalls the history of the castle in Sierakow — its successive owners, redesigning, damage and the circumstances of the reconstruction conducted in recent years. The residence in Sierakow, whose period of splendour coincided with the seventeeenth century, was built on the foundations of an earlier Gothic castle. This combination of a fifteenth-century arrangement of the interior (i. a. without expansive staircases) and the soaring solid of the building, built in a fashion characteristic for Mannerism, as well as the lavish Early Baroque outfitting of the interiors produced an extremely interesting architectonic effect. Today, Sierakow Castle has been partially reconstructed and houses a museum known as the Opaliński Castle-Museum. The original interiors on the ground-floor feature pewter sarcophagi (after conservation) of members of the Opaliński family, and the first floor, gradually filled with elements of former outfitting reconstructed upon the basis of authentic fragments (i. a. tile stoves), is the site of ceremonial meetings held by the town population; the second floor is adapted for the purposes of exhibitions.

Keywords

PL

Sieraków; Zamek Górków; rodzina Opalińskich; prace konserwatorskie; muzeum; restytucja

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 2000
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 341-346

Dates

published

2000

Contributors

author

Skuratowicz Jan

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247