Kalinowa, Sieradz County

Kalinowa is a village in Gmina Błaszki within the powiat Sieradzki, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is located about 6 km north-east of Błaszki, 21 km from Sieradz and 69 km west of the regional capital Łódź.

History and Monuments

The first mention of the village is to be found in written sources as of 1370 Arkembold heres de Kalinowa. It is the ancestral home of the noble family Zaremb with which large Sieradz and Kalisz province governor could derive just as Sieradz castle Vogts, Wieluƒ and grabower Star East. They were the owner of a large estate in the center of Kalinowa, were among those also 15 villages in Sieradz radius and at least as many to Kalisz around.

The mansion

At the beginning of the 17th century was Kalinowa owned by Wojciech January Łubieński ( 1653), who most likely had built the Baroque manor house in the village before 1652; a multi-storey building with a lower ground floor, projections and arcades, graduated nice from the front. The last owner of Łubieński - noble family was Feliks Łubieński (1758-1848), who moved his residence to Guzów in 1797. From a " Diary of Łubieńskis " and the holdings of the letter correspondence of his son, General Tomasz Łubieński (1784-1870), we now know a lot about the family as a whole. In Kalinowa Władysław Aleksander Łubieński Polish Primate, Stanisław August Poniatowski was crowned King of Poland.

From 1797 Kalinowa was owned by the Murzynowskis. Chosen your mansion in 1865 as a model for the Straszny Dwór ( Haunted Castle ) in Stanisław Moniuszko's opera of the same, thanks to the patriotic content of this work to date at the poles epitome of the Haunted Manor. In 1916, the Murzynskis could make basic restoration work and extensive renovations to its mansion.

After the first elimination of the Polish nobility in 1921 and after the second abolition in 1945 was left him his mansions (which need them, however, share with many other tenants, who were instructed by the housing office ) and residual solids up to about 1947. Were then extended by the Communists expropriated. In the years 1949-60, the mansion was used as a school, then from the Stacja Hodowli Roślin as a breeding station plants for agricultural production. On 1 July 1993, the lease with the Agencja Nieruchomości Rolnych (ANR ) (Agency of agricultural property ) and the mansion was finished ten years broke. On 14 January 2003, it renewed the lease with agricultural production companies until 2023. Shares in 2010 were PLN 8.728.500 for the price sold to AGROSAD.

From the original Straszny dwór up on the external view of only the historical vault is preserved in the basement. The oak staircase in the lower lobby area was destroyed during renovation work. Originally planned as an English landscape garden behind the manor park is neglected, a pond with an island covered relics of the former fortress of the Knights Zarembs ( probably used from the 15th century up to the edification of the Murowaner seat) in it.

Catholic Church of St. Mary Magdalene

In the village is the Gothic church of St. Mary Magdalene ( Kościół pw Sw. Marii Magdaleny w Kalinowej ), built by Jan Zaremb of 1465-68, radically restored in the early 19th century. It harbors a main altar in the Rococo style and a side altar in the classical style of the 19th century.