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History of manor

The manor house at Stryszow, situated at the foot of Mount Chełm in the Beskid Makowski mountain ranges, not far from Wadowice and Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, ranks among themost interesting and rare monuments of manorial architecture to survive in this region.raised towards the end of the 16th century, in the subsequent centuries it was remodelled and modernized. The founder and builder of the manor may be sought among the owners of Stryszow at the time – the Suski, Jagniątkowski and Pisarzewski families in succession.this seat of the landed gentry must have functioned in the first place as a defensive structure, since it was erected in sparsely inhabited territory, mountainous and wooded,constituting the bordrland between the Duchies of Ośiwecim and Zator. In the 17th century Michał Odrowąż Wilkoński, Esquire Carver of Kamieniec Podolski, became lord of the Stryszow estate, which in this family’s hands till as late as the 19th century. In the 19th century the manor house together with the estate was bought by Jozef Gorszczyński, legal adviser to the Bernardine monastery at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska near Wadowice. after his death it was inherited to his son Julian. After Julian’s death Stryszow passed into the hands of his daughter Rozalia, wife of Franiszek pomian Łubieński. The Łubieński family owned the house until 1939. After the war the estate was parcelled out, while the house, together with the farm buildings, was used as a State Farm. The park was irretrievable, whereas the building itself was repaired in the late ’50s. By order of the Minister of Culture and Art., since 1969 the manor has been functioning as a museum – A Department of the Wawel Royal Castle.

General view of manor from year 1958 with visible building of annexe from XIX age

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