KOŁACZKOWO
A village and seat of local commune (gmina) authorities, Kołaczkowo is located in Września district (powiat), ca. 7 km north-west of Pyzdry.
In the early 16th century, the estate was purchased by Dobrogost Jezierski, a courtier to the Górka family. In 1538, it became property of Łukasz Górka, the later bishop of Włocławek. The Zajączek family entered the stage no a still later date; from 18th century onwards, the proprietors were the Dąmbskis of the coat-of-arms Godziemba.
After Gustaw Dąmbski died in 1863, Kołaczkowo was sold to a German owner. In 1920, the estate was acquired by Władysław S. Reymont, the Polish novelist and Nobel laureate, who made it his residence. He lived there, wrote his works and participated in establishing a local park and gardens. The palace was visited by many representatives of science, politics and culture, on friendly terms with the estate resident – among them, Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki, Kornel Makuszyński, Zenon Przesmycki, Roman Dmowski, Władysław Grabski, Maciej Rataj or Wincenty Witos.
Reymont lived in his Kołaczkowo abode till he died in 1925. His inheritors sold the estate to the Jurasz family who then kept it till 1939.
Built in the early 19th century, the palace was subsequently rebuilt and redeveloped several times. It is now a brick plastered edifice founded upon a rectangular projection; its solid is two-storied and partly cellared, dense, covered with a pediment roof. Its elevations, covered with a smooth bossaged plaster highlighting the quoins, contain rectangular window openings arranged in a regular axis-oriented manner: the larger ones, embedded in architectural framings on the presentable ground-floor level, the smaller ones being featured on the upper storey, separated with a cordon cornice.
In its centre, the front elevation which faces the south, a monumental portico was designed, supported by four Ionic columns along whose axes four boundary columns of a corresponding shape are placed. The whole thing is crowned with a triangular pediment surrounded with a profiled cornice.
The palace’s interior – possibly, a two-track one before then, with a vestibule and a salon set on the axis – is thoroughly restyled nowadays. Only a few specimens of ornate classical door carpentry work have remained out of its former furnishings
The Kołaczkowo palace complex arrangement as a whole is complemented by two classical-styled annexes flanking a lawn-furnished driveway in front of the front façade. Also, a classicist stable is preserved – a brick building founded on an elongated-rectangular projection, two-storied and covered with a half-hipped roof. The stable’s longer elevations are fragmented by pilasters framing window axes – rectangular on the ground-floor level and semicircular on the upper storey. The peak-façade entrances are framed with boundary columns.
A Władysław Reymont remembrance chamber is arranged in one of the palace rooms today.
Address:
Gminny Ośrodek Kultury [The Communal Culture Centre]
plac Władysława Reymonta 1
62-306 Kołaczkowo
Tel. +48 61 438 50 78
