ROGOWO [in]: Former Farmstead Architecture “Greater Poland Estates” Vol. I Gostyń County
Scientific Editor of the series Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hab. Jan Skuratowicz
Published by the National Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry in Szreniawa, page 133.
The first historical information about the village comes from 1407, when R. belonged to the powerful Awdańców family. At the beginning of the 16th century, it was owned by the Pampowski (Pępowski) family, and from about the second quarter of the 16th century, the Czacki family. In 1622, the owner of Rogowo was Elżbieta Bojanowska, and at the end of the 18th century – Colonel Andrzej Twardowski, followed by Mateusz Błociszewski, a Bar Confederation member.
Around 1794, the leaseholder R. Cieśliński was mentioned. Subsequently, R. belonged to the Kwiatkowski family. From 1862, the owner of the estate was Piotr Albrecht Humblot, after whom in 1898 it was inherited by his daughter (?) Lertha Magnus née Humblot, and soon Paul Magnus from Berlin.
In 1924, the estate was acquired by the State Treasury, from which in the same year it was purchased by Remigiusz Grocholski from Grudziądz.
In the 1880s, there were 4 houses on the estate, inhabited by 125 people. In 1881, the estate’s area was 321 hectares, of which 221.5 were fields, 26.22 hectares meadows, 50.9 forests, 9.11 pastures. In 1913, there were 35 horses, 111 cows, 163 pigs. In 1926,
there was an electric dairy and a mill in Rogowo. The farm also conducted fish farming. The palace complex is located in the northern part of the village R., on the west side of the Niepart – Krobia road and consists of a residential part and a farm complex.
RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX – consisting of a palace and a park occupies the western part of the establishment.
PALACE built at the beginning of the 20th century in place of an older manor house visible on a map from the late 19th century. The form of the palace and decorative elements refer to late Baroque, Classicism, and Art Nouveau. The building faces west, brick-built, with a basement, two-storey, covered with a hipped roof with a belvedere in the middle of the ridge. Built on a rectangular plan. On the north side, there is a lower annex housing the entrance to the palace. The facades are plastered, decorated with panels and pilasters; east with two shallow risalits, a large terrace, and a balcony on the first floor.
LANDSCAPE PARK with an area of 3.9 hectares dates back to the 19th century.
FARM COMPLEX is seamlessly connected with the residential part (a fragment of the park with the palace is surrounded on three sides by farm buildings). On the east side of the farmyard, there are fish ponds. The main entrance to the courtyard was once located in the middle of the eastern frontage, while the second in the northeast corner. Currently, the entrance is located in the middle of the southern frontage. In the northern frontage of the courtyard stands a two-storey house from 1899 (date on the facade), probably the former office and manager’s apartment. In the 1970s, a new residential building was added to it on the site of an old farm building. The eastern wall of the courtyard is filled with two buildings (currently sheepfolds), connected by a lower structure. In the southern frontage, there is a three-storey granary, partially rebuilt; to its west side is a stable, the only farm building in R. preserved without major changes.
STABLE built around 1900, brick-built, on a stone foundation, single-storey with a usable attic, with a purlin-tie roof truss and a low-pitched gable roof. Built on a rectangular plan, with the interior divided into three rooms. Brick facades, with segmentally closed openings, divided by a string course.