Manor House Complex in Sieciechowice

The manor house complex in Sieciechowice in Iwanowice municipality was entered in the heritage register of Lesser Poland Voivodeship together with the park. Next to the no longer existing wooden manor house of the 18th century, in the last twenty years of the 19th century a two-storey building under a Polish roof was erected.

Owners

At the end of the 18th century the village belonged to the Kraków wojski Antoni Bobrownicki, and in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the Kęszycki family. From the end of the 1920s part of the estate (339 ha) went to the successors of Helena Kęszycka, and the larger part (900 ha) was held by Stanisław Rey. During the war the administrator of this part was Leon Krzeczunowicz, arrested by the Gestapo and murdered in the Dora camp in 1945. After the war the estate was nationalised, and the manor house housed a school, a veterinary clinic and a nursery school.

Today

Since 2022 the manor house, after reconstruction, has operated as an artists' residence of the Arte Novum Foundation. The interiors include a room with a Carl Bechstein piano of 1921, a glazed art gallery and a fireplace room, and there is also a viewing terrace. The landscape park had a part for horse-riding lessons, a vegetable garden and a part with ponds.

Practical information

• Village: Sieciechowice, Iwanowice municipality, close to the Regional Museum in Iwanowice.
• The facility serves exhibitions, concerts and events, but the rules of admission have not been established; check them with the foundation before your visit.