Neo-Renaissance palace

The palace in the neo-Renaissance style, also known as the Czarnecki palace, was built around 1840 by count Marceli Czarnecki and his wife Florentyna.

In front of the palace there is a scenic park with avenues of lindens and hornbeams and over 30 species of rare, exotic trees and bushes. To the south of the palace there is a fish pond with a little island. The road leading to the palace is surrounded by linden trees; it ends with a wide forecourt in front of the building.

In the years 1897-1898, count Marceli Czarnecki and his son Stanisław added two lower wings to the main body of the palace. The façade facing the park has a balcony supported on four columns and two octagonal turrets with staircases on both sides of the palace. In the park, the ice house has survived where ice slabs (cut out of the pond in the park in winter) were stored.

In the neighbourhood, there is also the co-called "czworaki", a complex of former farm buildings in the form of a rectangle, which serves as residential houses today.

Sources:

• G. Hoffmann, Zarys szkolnictwa i środowiska rakoniewickiego, Grodzisk Wlkp. 2005, ISDN 83-60114-05-6