Mansion in Czaple Wielkie from the front as seen today. After taking the estate from Popiels, the communist regime installed a school in the building, which has been functioning till now. Because of that, the building survived, although damaged, has not been destroyed as many other mansions. |
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Mansion in Czaple Wielkie from the back, as seen from the park. Visible large porch. |
Photos received from Mr. Bartlomiej Szpor, grandson of Anna Popiel of Czaple Wielkie.
Chwalewicz, Edward Zbiory polskie. Archiwa, biblioteki, gabinety, galerje, muzea i inne zbiory pamiatek przeszlosci w Ojczyznie i na obczyznie. W ukladzie alfabetycznym wg. miejscowosci. (Polish collections. Archives, libraries, furniture, galleries, museums and other collections of the former times in the country and abroad.) Krakow 1916
CZAPLE WIELKIE, County of Miechow, Province of Kielce.
Popiel Eustachy
The mansion made of bricks per Boleslaw Podczaszynski's design. Rich library containing old Polish prints. Adam Mickiewicz's corrector's copy of the "Pan Tadeusz" with own corrections of Bohdan Janczewski and with the Author's manual corrections.
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Jan Popiel & Slawomir Popiel |
This site was created on June 15, 1998
and updated on May 11, 2007 |