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Dwór Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego Kąśna Dolna

Mansion of Ignacy Jan Paderewski Kąśna Dolna

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Kąśna Dolna 17, 33-190 Ciężkowice Tourist region: Pogórza

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This is where he lived and worked. Today, it is the only surviving residence of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in the world. The manor house in Kąśna, together with its estate of over 1,100 hectares, provides a glimpse into the life of the great composer and Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic. Kąśna Dolna lies on the left bank of the Biała River, two kilometres west of Ciężkowice.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski bought the estate in 1897. He came here for the summer months for the next six years. This is where he spent his honeymoon with his second wife, Helena, and lived with her from 1897 to 1903. The manor house, built in 1833 in the classicist style, belonged to the Gostkowski family at that time.  It is situated on a small hill facing east. It adjoins the former manor outbuilding to the west. The single-storey mansion is a brick rendered structure with a partial basement. The interiors of the manor house conceal the reconstructed and furnished: the drawing room, the Chinese room, the master's study, the bedroom, and the drawing rooms (classicist and neo-Rococo). Today, the former residence of Ignacy Jan Paderewski serves as both a concert centre and a museum for the great composer. You will also see the Czech Petrof piano on which he played and created.

In 1903, Rotmistrz Włodzimierz Kodrębski and his wife Zofia became the new owners. From them, the estate was acquired by a landowner from Sanok, Stanisław Nowak. 

 The estate was nationalised in 1945. It housed the office of a nearby fruit processing plant, a primary school and later a leisure centre. The condition of the buildings was deteriorating all the time.

In 1979, the Tarnów Music Society became the host of the manor house, which took care of the restoration of the building and the park and collecting mementoes of Paderewski.

The Paderewski Centre Tarnów-Kąśna Dolna was established in 1990, and it has been managing the manor house and park since 1998.

The manor house and park were entered on the list of monuments of the Małopolska Voivodeship on 30 May 1980.


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