Nalepówka Villa, 19th century villa in Tarnów, Poland
The Nalepówka Villa is a single-storey, rendered brick building on a rectangular plan, with a usable attic, a basement, an octagonal tower on the east side and two side avant-corps on the present front. Its English neo-Gothic character shows in pointed-arch windows and doorways, crenellations crowning the walls, arcaded friezes and stepped gables. It was probably designed by Karol Polityński or a follower of Franciszek Maria Lanci.
The villa was probably built in the 1860s for Franciszek and Tomasz Nalepa, brothers who owned a nearby brickworks; the plot had belonged to Franciszek and Tymoteusz Skrzyński. In 1873 Stanisław Żelechowski bought it, and on 12 May 1899 it passed to the Goldman family, who ran ceramics and candle production on the grounds. Russian soldiers used the villa as horse stables during the First World War. The city took ownership after a legal dispute with the Goldman heirs in 2010–2016, and the building was entered in the monument register in 2006.
Locals called the villa Nalepówka or Goldmanówka after its successive owners; the name Pałac Ślubów dates from 1980–2019, when the civil registry office held weddings on the ground floor. Since 22 March 2024 the building houses the Tarnowskie Centrum Dialogu, opened with an open day and guided tours.
The villa stands at Gumniska 30 in the Gumniska district, southeast of Tarnów's centre, not by the main square. The Gumniska street was laid out around 1800 as the road linking the village of Gumniska with the city. A rail viaduct of line 91, built in 1852, lies just east of the building, and a sports and entertainment hall from 1972 stands directly west.
The villa's name honours the Nalepa brothers, who built it in the 1860s for their brickworks; locals of Zabłocie also called it Goldmanówka after the Goldman family, owners from 1899. During World War I Russian soldiers stabled horses inside and wrecked the interior. The brickworks was bombed, but the candle factory survived.
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