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Zagroda Korkoszów Czarna Góra

Korkoszów Homestead Czarna Góra

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Zagóra 86, 34-532 Czarna Góra Tourist region: Pieniny i Spisz

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This wooden homestead once belonging to the wealthy Korkosz family is, in the landscape of the ever-changing Spis village, a natural island of its ancient, specific material culture. Today, it is a branch of the Tatra Museum.

In the northern part of Czarna Góra, in the settlement called ‘Zagóra’, there is a wooden homestead that once belonged to the local wealthy Korkosz family. The layout of the buildings exemplifies the development of the Spis homestead: from a simple one consisting of two buildings (a cottage and a stable) in the late 19th century to one composed of many buildings in the 1930s.

The oldest buildings were constructed at the end of the 19th century by Alojzy Chyżny. For several years, Alojzy Chyżny stayed in America. When he returned to the village in 1919, he extended the cottage, adding a magnificent 'great room' with a chamber. Further expansion of the homestead was carried out by Sebastian Korkosz, husband of Elżbieta,Alojzy's daughter. In the 1930s, more outbuildings were built: a stone stable and coach house. The village's first treadmill was placed in the former stable. The last extension took place in the 1940s when a chamber known as the ‘summer room’ or ‘lord’s room’ was built in place of the chamber, with a separate entrance via an extension porch. In the late 1940s, the Korkosz family moved permanently to Slovakia, where they now live.

In 1980, Sebastian Korkosz's descendants donated the homestead to the Treasury, wishing to create a museum there. After conservation renovation, the Tatra Museum (link to the description of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane) organised an ethnographic exhibition in the interiors, depicting the rich Spis household in the inter-war period.

In an ever-changing village, the Korkosz homestead is where the now-vanished world of peasant culture is still alive. The residential parts of the homestead – vestibule, kitchen, 'great room', and 'summer room' – are situated one behind the other. The hallway, which was mainly used as a storehouse for items needed on the farm, also housed a carpenter's workshop. Its owner made all the equipment needed on the farm, from furniture to crockery. There are other utensils such as wooden milk dishes, mortars or hand querns. From the vestibule, the entrance leads to the attic, or chamber, a place where grain was stored in sowing boxes and foodstuffs in chests and troughs. The kitchen is the room where family life used to be concentrated before the rooms were built. Here they slept, ate, cooked food, baked bread, and spun flax and wool. Since the 'great room' was added, it has served as the Korkosz family's bedroom. It was also used to store festive clothes, receive guests, and celebrate family and annual celebrations. The furnishings of the ‘lord's chamber’, intended for guests, are as they were in the 1940s, when the Korkosz family still lived here. In addition, a weaving workshop, still in use today, was permanently set up. The chamber also featured sculptures and photographs depicting members of this artistically talented family. They include sculptors, a glass painter, and a weaver. On the shelf is the sculpture The Fall of Christ under the Cross, chiseled by Ludwik Korkosz, and on the stove is a plaster sculpture also made by Ludwik Korkosz depicting the head of Sebastian Korkosz.

One of the outbuildings, a stone stable, is noteworthy for its exhibition depicting flax processing, which includes tools used for breaking, combing, and spinning flax, while in the carriage house, in keeping with its purpose, stands a wagon with two half-scythes, the woven baskets that were put into it. On the cart were placed the milk chuns in which the milk from the pastures was carried. Here there is also a wooden device used to lift the cottage in order to replace the substructure or foundations and dig out the cellar.

The homestead is located on the Wooden Architecture Route in Małopolska (Korkoszów Homestead Czarna Góra)