Złoty Potok Palace, Classical palace in Złoty Potok, Poland.
Złoty Potok Palace is a two-storey classicist residence with a pale cream facade and a red roof. Its central section rises one level higher under a triangular pediment with a relief carving, topped by a small round ornament; below the pediment is a balcony with a railing, and above it are three round windows. Two lower wings with red roofs and small chimneys flank the centre, and the building stands behind a pond with trees and shrubs along its base.
A manor called Zameczek stood here from the 16th century and fell into ruin by the early 19th. General Wincenty Krasiński bought the estate and had a Classicist palace built in 1856, reusing the older structure. The Raczyński family rebuilt it in the early 20th century, giving it its present form, and kept it until 1939.
The palace takes its name from the Raczyński family: Maria, daughter of the poet Zygmunt Krasiński, married Count Edward Aleksander Raczyński in 1877, and his Nałęcz coat of arms surrounded by panoplies sits in the pediment crowning the gable. After 1945 the estate was nationalised and a school occupied the building for many years.
The palace stands in a 40-hectare English-style park crossed by the Wiercica river, designed by Franciszek Szanior. The building itself is in very poor technical condition and cannot be visited inside. Visitors can walk the park grounds and see the facade from across the pond; the neighbouring 1829 manor house serves as the Zygmunt Krasiński Regional Museum.
The palace's front pediment carries the Nałęcz coat of arms of Count Edward Aleksander Raczyński, surrounded by panoplies; he acquired the estate through his wife Maria, daughter of the poet Zygmunt Krasiński, whom he married in 1877. Inside, original stoves, chandeliers, a few pieces of furniture and the oak staircase rising from the entrance hall to the piano nobile survive.
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