Nieborów
Nieborów is a village and seat of the rural community in Poland in Lodz Province. The village is famous for its Castle and the important Baroque garden. Nearby is its park of Arkadia.
History
The beginnings of Nieborów go back to the outgoing 12th century. 1324 a church was built. Moreover, even then a wooden manor house was in the place. The place name is first mentioned in Nieborów church records from the 14th century in connection with the driving of the Peter 's Pence.
Beginning of the 16th century manor house was built in a transitional style between gothic and Renaissance Nieborów. This farm was used until the end of the 17th century. The goods Nieborów were then in the possession of the noble family Nieborowski. This sold the property in 1694 to the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Michael Stephan Radziejowski, the here by the architect Tylman van Gameren, builder of the Royal Chapel in Gdańsk, baroque palace was built with a garden.
After the death of Cardinal the estate changed hands many times before it was transferred in 1774 to the art-loving Michał Hieronim Prince Radziwill, who later Voivode of Vilna. Prince Radziwill had the castle equip magnificently in period style with furniture and artwork. He established an extensive library with over 10,000 volumes, including incunabula of the 15th century and the oldest printed product in Poland. Also put Prince Radziwill an extensive picture gallery: he collected Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish paintings and portraits of Polish and foreign dignitaries. The Gemäldegalerie Affiliate Kupferstichkabinett comprised between ten and twenty thousand leaves.
Prince Radziwill was create by Simon Gottlieb train early seventies of the 18th century a regular French garden in front of the castle.
The prince was also interested in the economic interests of his estate and was the introduction of new agricultural methods compared with open-minded. His wife, Helena, born Przezdziecki, was also a great collector and patron of the arts. She led the few kilometers away romantic garden and called him Arkadia. This is where artists of the Enlightenment met. The pavilions are equipped with numerous works of art. The Princess collected Greek and Roman antiquities.
After the death of Michał Hieronim Radziwill in 1831, at first no one took care of Nieborów, as there was a year-long dispute over the inheritance. Ten years the estate was left to itself, then, in 1841, finally the son Michał Hieronims, Michał Gedeon Prince Radziwill, Nieborów has taken over. Michał Gedeon Radziwill was a general and one of the main commanders of the Polish November Uprising of 1831st After his death, the estate passed into the possession of his son, Prince Radziwill on Zygmund. This proved, however, as arrant wasters and Nieborów has completely ruined gradually economically. In order to get money, he had to auction in Paris the best part of the picture gallery and the library. He also sold Arkadia with its valuable artwork on someone else's hands. Luckily Zygmund Radziwill joined the estate in 1879 to his nephew Michał Piotr Radziwill from and emigrated to France. The new owner bought back Arkadia and founded in 1881 a majolica, which also endowed the castle with Zierkachelöfen and art ceramics. Also, a furniture factory was established at that time. Michał Piotr Radziwill was also eager to supplement the library's collections through new acquisitions. He died in 1903 childless. His widow sold Nieborów three years later to a distant cousin, Janusz Radziwill. This was a politician of the interwar period and has made in the years 1922-1929 to rebuild the interiors in the castle part. He Nieborów a fashionable meeting place, which was visited by politicians and representatives of high society. Until February 1945 Janusz Radziwill remained in the possession of Nieborów. Then the family was deported by the NKVD and taken to a camp in Krasnogorsk, where Janusz Radziwill's wife died. He could indeed return to Warsaw in 1947, the castle and the garden ensemble of Nieborów and Arkadia were but as already nationalized and made available to the public as a branch of the National Museum of Warsaw. Janusz Radziwill died 1967.
In Nieborów the shooting ( "The Academy of Mr. Blobby " ) found for the well-known Polish children's film " Akademia Pana Kleksa " instead.
Castle
See main article: Castle Nieborów