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XIX century manor and park complex
The antique XIX century manor and park complex became in 1989 the seat of the Foundation. It continually undergoes repair and preservation. It is supposed to be totally adapted in the way that all statutory aims could be realised.
The manor is built on the projection of rectangle in dimensions of 34/15 metres. On the central axis from both sides there are breaks, rectangular in northern part, and closed in pentagon from the southern side.
The entry to the manor from the front northern side is by three platforms thrown over a dry moat surrounded with resistory walls secured by cast-iron balustrades. The manor is seated on a pedestal from hewed stone, and it is built of red burnt brick. On the first floor a half – timbered construction was applied. The roof covering was made of state at first, and in the 80’s of the XX century the roof was changed altering the state for zinc sheet metal. In 1991 the whole roof was painted with minium and a graphite paint approximate to colour of state.
The wooden roof rafter framing has the four - slopes construction, intersecting over the central part of the building. In roof surface from the north and south there are cuttings over bay windows topped with turrets, covered with high, soaring little roofs, finished with spires.
The front elevation from the northern side is 12 - axial. A two - meter break stepping out to the front on the axis of the building is a decorative part making up a dominant. Wide doors with lighting divided into five ogives closed at the top with a sectioned bow lead to the break. Above there are placed three little windows over which there is a profiled balustrade closing the balcony. It is made of circular ceramic elements decorated in the middle with a motive of a fish vesicle or the four - leaf clover. Three balcony windows are closed with donkey backs. The middle window was solved as window - doors. The whole surface of the niche over the windows was covered with ceramic pierced elements with a four - leaf clover after the Gothic traceries. The first storey made in Prussian wall leans on a long beam, which is supported by quite strongly put forward wooden profiled pylons.
The back elevation from the southern side is solved similarly, the difference is that there are no door openings in the elevation, and the break has the shape of a pentagon. In the pedestal part there are window openings with a sectioned bow partly plugged or with windows.
The eastern elevation characterizes with asymmetric distribution of windows in the ground-floor part and the left window is a diaphragm. Windows on the first floor are situated symmetrically, in the rhythm:1 : 3 : 1. All windows are closed with sectioned bows with a low arrow. The top part separates wooden cornice from pylons. In the pedestal part in dry moat there is the entrance to the cellar.
The western elevation is similar to the eastern one, but there is a bay window in two extreme axises - the stepping out from the cheek of the elevation a part of the building creating with the interior an organic integrity covered with a separate roof. On the walls of the bay window between the windows of ground floor and the first floor there is a balustrade made of ceramic elements –circles filled with the fish vesicles. The building is totally cellared. In central cellars there is brick floor, and in side western and eastern cellars there is concrete floor. The arrangement of cellars is a tri-track; the central narrower runs by the whole length of the building and from it there is access to individual rooms. The vaults of the cellars are mostly sectioned, partly they are ceilings on girders. In breaks the vaults are brick.
The ground floor is planned as a double-track with a one-space hall in the break part and diverse as for the size rooms in the side parts. The largest hall on the south-northern axis from the southern side is closed with a pentagonal apse and from the northern side a rectangle outflanked by diagonally put buttresses. The hall with a wooden beam ceiling is considerably higher than the rooms in side parts. The walls of the hall are dismembered with two lines of niches with a diverse width, all are vaulted by sectioned bows with low arrow. In the apse and the northern vestibule there is a cross-shaped vaulting with low arrow. The floor is made of boards.
The south-eastern living room put on a projection of rectangle is adorned with moulding plafond divided into two uneven parts - the narrow rectangle in the eastern part of the hall is separated by a profiled beam, four times longer rectangle with rosette in the centre is encircled with narrow slat divided with circles. The rosette is decorated with a stylise vegetable ornament and it is the centre of the longer rectangle.
The south-western lounge is the most decorative in the whole building. Put on the projection of rectangle it is enlarged with a rectangular bay window with one window. Decorative plafond is divided into three parts: 2 edging narrow rectangles separate the central square with beams. Inside the square , there is moulding composed on the projection of a eight-pointed star. These are stylised flowers, grape vine, three-leaves. Stripes of plaiting separate some part of the star.
A decorative frieze runs around the plafond on the point of contact with the side walls. To the lounge in the north-western wing one comes in through the door placed in a cut corner. Here the moulting plafond is made of thin, modestly decorated slats. It is composed on the motive of diamonds, and its tops are cut creating straight endings. The storey is made of the Prussian wall, only the break part is brick.
Wooden stairs with an oval doll in the centre, the doors to lounges in a neo-renaissance form with circular elements in the centre, the doors – windows leading on balconies of the type of donkey back, two stoves, one with a cornice with neo-renaissance motives, may be considered as other valuable elements of the manor preserved since the time of its construction.
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