The manor house in Spychyntsi

The manor house in Spychyntsi painted by Napoleon Orda in 1872–1874.


The present manor house in Spychyntsi (Spiczynce in Polish) was built in the late 1800s by count Henryk Tyszkiewicz (1847–1917). It's a two-story rectangular brick-building in French neo-renaissance style under a mansard roof. The first floor has two oriels facing the park. Initially the main-building was adjoined from both sides by two economy wings, connected with it by semicircular one-storeyed galleries, which can be seen on Napoleon Orda's painting above. Today only one of the wings exist. This older manor house was built in classicism style.

Today the manor house is used as a school and is in a bad shape. Especially the right wing is about to fall apart. Although the manor house do have an old Soviet marker saying it's protected for its architectural values. Parts of the old fruit park that leads down to the pond (that is a part of the river Ros) is preserved, as well as parts of the brick-wall that surrounds the area.

Count Henryk Tyszkiewicz was a son of count Stanislaw Tyszkiewicz in the neighbouring village Andrushivka (Andruszowka in Polish). Henryk was married in 1877 to Teresa Sobanska. It was her parents Piotr Sobanski and Hortensja Bozeniec-Jelowicka who owned the village and had lived in the old manor house. Thus Henryk came to live in Spychyntsi and here he also died during the revolution on May 22, 1917.

It's very possible that there has been an even older manor house in Spychyntsi. It's not known for how long the Sobanski family owned the village. Some sources say that the village was owned by prince Roman Ruzynski in the early 1600s.

 
All pictures are taken in May 2006.

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