Żelazna - village in Poland in voivodeship of Lodz, Skierniewice County, Skierniewice commune, 10 km south of Skierniewice on the Łupia River.
Geographic coordinates: 51 ° 52′02 ″ N 20 ° 08′10 ″ E
The village certainly existed in the 18th century because the baroque church of St. All Saints, rebuilt in the nineteenth century in the classicist style. Next to the church there is a belfry and a cemetery with the Łuszczewski chapel from the 19th century and the tombs of the Mazaraki and Strakacz families.
It is known that the village at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the property of the Mazaraki family, Newlin coat of arms, was in their vast estates until 1944. The last owner of the property was Aleksander Mazaraki junior (1887-1986), the last president of the Land Credit Society in the Kingdom of Poland.
On the slope of the Łupia valley, a manorial landscape park with old lime trees and oaks, with a pond and an island on which stands a statue of the Virgin Mary, set to commemorate the January Uprising.
In the park there is a neo-Renaissance mansion built for Aleksander Mazaraki at the end of the 19th century, made of brick, plastered, on an irregular plan.
The front elevation has a wooden porch decorated with carved decorations.
Inside, a tiled stove with a crown and stucco decorations.
The building of the former starch factory from the 19th century (also erected by Aleksander Mazaraki) is also interesting.
For many years, there was a field experimental station in the manor Warsaw University of Life Sciences, a genetic research center Polish Academy of Sciences and a laboratory for testing plant resistance to viral diseases. Currently, the manor house of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences' Experimental Station, which also owns most of the surrounding fields and the buildings of the former starch factory, still has its seat.
On the list of monuments kept by National Heritage Institute the following objects are entered:
- complex of the parish church of All Saints, 18th century, 19th century:
- church, registered number: 534-XII-19 from 04/29/1950 and 289 from 29/12/1967
- belfry, registration number: 534-XII-19 from April 29, 1950 and 919 from December 29, 1967
- church cemetery, register number: 918 from December 21, 1992
- Roman Catholic cemetery, 19th century, registry number: 879 A of April 10, 1992
- manor house, 19th / 20th century:
- manor house, reg.no .: 596 from July 28, 1983
- park, reg.No .: 530 from 5 May 1980.
At the end of World War II, the writer died there Maria Rodziewiczówna (1863-1944) author of numerous novels, incl. Czahara, Dewajtis, Summer forest people, Scary grandpa.
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