Osada Czorsztyn, Open-air museum in Czorsztyn, Poland.
Osada Czorsztyn is a 17-hectare open-air complex on the Stylchyn peninsula of Lake Czorsztyńskie, made up of 31 buildings moved from Maniów, Kluszkowce and Czorsztyn before the lake was filled. It comprises 9 wooden pensions and villas, 11 rural cottages and farm buildings, and 11 stone cellars with wooden hay lofts above them.
The museum was founded in the 1990s to preserve buildings that vanished when the Czorsztyńskie Lake was flooded. The lake was created by damming the Dunajec River and fundamentally reshaped the surrounding landscape.
The name Osada refers to a traditional settlement, and the grounds display structures from rural communities that disappeared when the lake was created. The buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries show how farming families actually lived in this region.
The complex lies on the Stylchyn peninsula on the northern shore of Lake Czorsztyńskie, about 17 hectares in size. The hotel section has 54 beds across three villas: Teofila Sanoka (reception and administration, 5 rooms/apartments), Leopolda Szperlinga (7 rooms and 4 apartments, plus the 'U Szperlinga' inn), and Józefa Galoty (8 rooms). The Podhale Sailing Society marina is next to the site.
Of the 37 stone cellars once standing in Maniowy, only 11 were saved and moved here; each was built of broken stone around 1900 and topped with a log-frame hay loft. The row forms the north-western edge of the open-air museum.
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