Zimnowoda

Six kilometers southeast of Borek Wielkopolski. From the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century, owned by the Rychłowski family. Then owned by the Kwilecki family, from 1872 the Mycielski family, from 1932 the Grocholski family.

The palace was built around 1864 according to the design of Stanisław Hebanowski, in the French Neo-Renaissance style.

Next to the palace is a park covering an area of 13.62 hectares from the first half of the 19th century. The park contains two large ponds. The park is divided into a regular and landscape section.

ZIMNOWODA [in]: Former Farmstead Architecture “Estates of Greater Poland”

Volume I – Gostyń County
Scientific Editor of the series Assoc. Prof. Jan Skuratowicz, Ph.D.
Published by the National Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry in Szreniawa, page 179.

A village appearing in sources since 1390. At the end of the 14th century and in the 15th century, it was owned by the Zimnowodzki family, from the 16th century by the Głosiński family. In 1618, Mikołaj Marszewski was mentioned as the owner. Around the mid-18th century, the locality came into the hands of the Rychłowski family, remaining in their possession until 1841. In 1872, Z. was acquired by Mieczysław Kwilecki, in 1872 it was already owned by Teodor Mycielski, and from 1875 by his widow Ludwika Mycielska née Bisping. From 1879 to 1919, the estate was owned by Alfred Mycielski from Siedmiorogów, and from 1919 by Maria Mycielska née Łącka. In 1932, the property was owned by Henryk Grocholski.

Around 1865, the village had 12 houses, including 2 brick ones, and in the 1890s, 18 houses and 326 inhabitants. In 1881, the estate covered an area of 862 hectares, including 688 hectares of fields, 40.6 hectares of meadows, 64.5 hectares of pastures, and 42.7 hectares of forests. In 1913, on the Z. farm along with the Głoginin farm, there was breeding of 70 horses, 325 cows, 1485 pigs, and 175 sheep.

In 1926, the farm specialized in breeding noble half-blood cattle and in the reproduction of cereal and sugar beet seeds. There was also a potato flake factory and a steam mill operating here.

The palace complex was located in the northwest corner of the village, along the road from Borek to Koźmin. It consists of a residential and farm section.

The RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX consisting of the palace and park occupies the southwest part of the layout. It is situated along the northwest-southeast axis running through the entire layout.

The PALACE was built after 1864 for the then owner of the estate, Teodor Mycielski, by architect Stanisław Hebanowski. The building’s form refers to the works of the main creator of 17th-century French architecture, Henri Mansart. Brick-built, two-story, on partially vaulted cellars, with a façade facing southeast. The interior layout is two and two and a half tract. On the axis, there is a two-story, richly decorated, representative hall and vestibule. The ground floor houses representative rooms with an impressive dining room to the south and residential rooms in the north part. In the eastern part of the palace, on the side of the farm, there is the master’s study. The palace facades are plastered, rusticated, richly decorated with architectural and sculptural decoration.

The landscape park – regular, covering an area of 13.26 hectares, dating from the first half of the 19th century, partially transformed around 1864 and after 1890. Located in the valley of the Pogony River. The southeast part of the park is regular, with a four-row avenue of chestnut and lime trees reaching the lawn in front of the palace. Parallel to it, closer to the residence, run two hornbeam rows. The northwest part of the park is landscape-style, with two large ponds. On the embankment between the ponds, on the main axis of the layout, there is an elm avenue leading to the main entrance gate. The third pond is located to the south of the palace.

The FARM COMPLEX is situated in the northeast part of the layout between the park and the road, consisting of a farmyard and a colony of farm workers’ houses. The farmyard is large, with an irregular outline; divided into two interiors by a centrally located building. There are two entrances to the yard – from the northwest and northeast, from the main road. Partially preserved old fence, brick-built, plastered. In the northwest part of the courtyard, the following objects are located: in the north wing, a granary and barn from 1867, in the west, a rebuilt residential building, former forge, currently a pigsty from about the third quarter of the 19th century, and a new administrative building, in the south a small utility building. In the second part of the yard along the northeast wing, two residential buildings from the fourth quarter of the 19th century were erected, in the east wing a pigsty, and in the southeast a cowshed and distillery.

The PIGSTY from the late 19th century, brick-built, single-story with a higher risalit, covered with a gable roof with tiles. Built on a rectangular plan, with an interior divided by two rows of cast iron columns, with a longitudinal layout of stalls. Plastered facades, in the middle of the front (west) – a three-axis risalit, enlivened with decorative arched openings and niches.

The GRANARY from 1867 (date on the facade), brick-built with stone and brick, two-story with an attic. The roof truss is purlin-collar, gable roof covered with felt. Built on a rectangular plan, with an interior divided by two rows of columns; above a bare beam ceiling. Stone facades with brick architectural detail (pilasters), cordon and crowning cornices, window surrounds.

The BARN connected on the east side with the granary, built around 1867, brick-built with stone, with brick detail, single-story, partially basemented, covered with a gable roof covered with felt. Built on a rectangular plan, with a contemporary annex on the south side, three-threshing, four-bay.

The DISTILLERY from 1883 (date on the chimney), brick-built, two-story, basemented. The roof truss is purlin-collar, gable roof covered with felt. Built on a rectangular plan, with a boiler room with a chimney to the east. Plastered facades, with a higher risalit at the front (west). Walls rhythmized by pilasters, in the attic part with segmentally closed panels. Window openings segmentally ended, side elevation gables finished with a stepped frieze.