Radzyń County - poviat in Poland, in Lubelskie Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Radzyń Podlaski.
An administrative division
The poviat consists of:
municipalities: Radzyń Podlaski rural municipalities: Borki, Czemierniki, Kąkolewnica, Komarówka Podlaska, Radzyń Podlaski, Ulan Majorat, Wohyń cities: Radzyń Podlaski
Worth seeing
in Radzyń Podlaski
Historical monuments
The parish church of Holy Trinity Church of the Holy Trinity
St. Trójcy Street is located at the intersection of Ostrowiecka and Jana Pawła II Streets. The Mniszech family, who leased the Radzyń estate from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century, founded the church of Holy Trinity. The construction of the church in Radzyń lasted almost in the middle of the 17th century and was completed in 1641. This date is also visible above its main entrance. However, the consecration of the church took place only three years later - in 1644. The present church of Holy Trinity continues the name of the oldest church in Radzyń and the parish tradition. It is an example of late Renaissance religious architecture in Poland. The same group of churches, included in the leading architectural works of the so-called of the Lublin Renaissance, apart from the church in Radzyń, there are also churches in Czemierniki, Uchanie and Kodeń on the Bug River. The church in Radzyń is a single-nave church with two side chapels. Over its sacristy, the architect placed attics, which are one of the features of Polish Renaissance architecture. On the outer side of the upper part of the church there is a frieze made of regularly spaced triglyphs and metopes. On the eastern side, we see a beautifully built apse. A characteristic component of Mannerism is the decorative network of stuccoes, which create a great number of different compositions in the interior of the temple. The dignified and historic character of the temple is strengthened by the paintings of Józef Ruchbinder, a famous creator of religious paintings. They are located in the main and side altars, also on bolts. In the chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, there is an old painting of Our Lady of the Rosary, painted on wood - probably the same age as the church. There you can also see the tomb of the Mniszech family - its founders. The Lord Jesus Chapel is connected with the tradition of the January Uprising. Placed on the side walls of the nave, the plaques commemorate the military deed of the 35th Infantry Regiment of Lt. Col. "Muller" during the German occupation and the ordeal of the members of the Radzyń Association of Siberians. On the west side there is a gate - belfry, built by Jakub Fontana on the order of General Eustachy Potocki in the second half of the 18th century. The belfry was twice the object of independence fights. One of the episodes of our recent history is commemorated by a plaque attached to it, devoted to fighters from the Freedom and Independence organization. In the years 1989-1992, the church and its surroundings were thoroughly renovated.
Potocki Palace
Main article: Palace in Radzyń Podlaski.
Palace courtyard Potocki Palace - west tower
The decision to build the palace was made in the second half of the 1840s, and at the end of the 1950s - the palace was ready. Former owners of the Radzyń estate, St. A. Szczuk, using the services of the royal architect August Locci (author of, among others, the expansion of Wilanów), in the years 1685–1709, in Radzyń, in the place of the 15th-century Kaznowski castle, he built a baroque representative and defense-type residence. The whole complex is maintained in the style of a residence "entre cour et jardin" - surrounded by a courtyard and a garden. It is built in the shape of a horseshoe: from the main body, which is the main part of the building, there are two wings running towards the south, on the eastern and western sides. The main body and both wings surround a courtyard, closed on the south side with a wall and an iron, carved gate. In the central part of both wings there are exit gates, with a gesture encouraging guests to visit the palace, beautifully designed towers have been built above them. Here, the architect placed the emblems of the coats of arms: Brochwicz (the coat of arms of the Kątski family) and Pilawa (the coat of arms of the Potocki family) and figural sculptures by Jan Chryzostom Redler. The central part of the palace from the courtyard side has a very rich decoration, the focal point of which are two Rococo cartouches with the initials MK and EP (Maria Kątska and Eustachy Potocki). The design of the palace was made by an architect of Italian origin, Jakub Fontana. He came from a family associated with Poland for many years and meritorious for the Polish secular and religious construction. The interior of the palace in Radzyń was painted by the painter Jan Bogumił Plersch, while the sculptures decorating individual elements of the palace were made by the Silesian sculptor Jan Chryzostom Redler. The less famous stucco artist Józef Lapen worked on the stucco and auxiliary decorating works designed by Fontana. Michał Dollinger made very elegant balustrades and stairs. Their character has been kept unchanged to this day. The outline of the palace building resembles a lace formed by a large number of sculptures and gables set against the background of sloping roofs. Heraldic compositions of the Karski and Potocki coats of arms, sculptures of slaves, panoplies and acroterions placed in many places increased the aesthetic value of the building and emphasized that it was a knight's seat, constituted its apotheosis. They are also a manifestation of the baroque fashion prevailing at that time. The façade panels and pilaster heads have rich ornamentation made with the use of ripple technique and visibly enliven them in a very sophisticated way. The decoration of the palace rooms was extremely rich, paneling, painting, woodcarving and goldsmithing, fireplaces, Saxon stoves, Gdańsk furniture, portrait galleries - all this was destroyed as a result of the palace being set on fire by the retreating Russian troops in 1915 and German troops in 1944. the palace
The Palace in Radzyń was a witness and the place of many historical events, in its chambers a part of the draft of the Constitution of May 3, 1791 was prepared, here the emperor Alexander I stayed in his hurry to Puławy. The events of the November Uprising and the January Uprising, Russification and persecution of Uniates rubbed against the palace, where General Edward Rydz Śmigły was quartered here in August 1920, when his armies chased the escaping Red Army troops. This fact was commemorated with a plaque funded in 1995 by the city authorities. The collapsing property and the palace, decreasing their income, underwent changes in owners. They were purchased for a short time by Fr. Stanisław Staszic, then Anna Sapieżyna, who in 1818 founded an elementary school and in 1824 sold the Radzyń estate to the Czartoryski family. The goods were threatened with confiscation for their patriotic attitude and participation in the November Uprising. To prevent it, the goods were sold in 1834 to Korwin-Szlubowski. The property remained in their hands until 1944. Despite the attempts of the new owners, the palace was not restored to its former glory and in 1920 Stanisław Korwin-Szlubowski handed it over to the Polish State. In the interwar period, it housed state administration offices. During the occupation, the Germans also deployed the authorities of the German occupation administration there. They took advantage of their possibilities and, with the help of cheap or free labor, carried out a number of restoration works. German troops escaping in July 1944 set fire to the palace, and the fire led to its enormous destruction. In the 1960s, the then poviat authorities, to the best of their ability, rebuilt it and designated it as the seat of poviat institutions. After the county was liquidated in 1975, the palace was taken over as seats of various institutions that did not care about its conservation. The condition of the palace was clearly deteriorating day by day. In 1980, a new stage of a thorough renovation was started, and since then it has been systematically carried out by subsequent teams of city authorities. The Foundation for the Protection of the Palace and Park Complex in Radzyń Podlaski, established by the City Council, creates a favorable atmosphere in this field through various forms of promotion of the city and its monuments. It is also an important factor in the culture of the old city. Cultural institutions of Radzyń are located in the renovated palace rooms. The old, historic palace, built with the use of Saxon, French and Italian designs, and the surrounding park add a lot of charm to the over 500-year-old Radzyń Podlaski.
Orangery
A high-class monument included in this group among the most beautiful in Poland is the palace orangery in the park, which is also the work of Jakub Fontana and his associates building the Potocki Palace. It is a building situated on the plan of two intersecting rectangles with the façade on the south side. Clearly visible Ionic columns and pilasters support the entablature, on which there are sculptures depicting Apollo's chariot riding out into the blue firmament. The side projections of the conservatory façade are decorated with vases and putti. In this way, the palace and park complex in Radzyń is unique on a national scale.
Other monuments:
Palace Park The Old Jewish Cemetery The New Jewish Cemetery The Szlubowski Palace, the so-called "Gubernia" Chapel at the cemetery Church pole
Memorial sites and monuments
Mogiła Powstańców 1863, Powstańców Styczeńowych street - place of insurgents burial, commemorated at the initiative of Fr. T. Osiński before the Second World War. In this place, the tsarist authorities carried out executions of the insurgents who had fought against Russia in the years 1863-1864, sentenced to death. The new cross, in place of the previous one, was solemnly placed in 1981 at the initiative of Fr. W. Kobyliński. There is a plate on the cross with the details of 4 insurgents buried there. Police building and jail buildings.