Nowy Dwór w Goszycach
Poland
Built in 1897, probably according to a design by Krakow-Lviv architect Teodor Talowski, the Goszyce Manor House witnessed many historical events throughout the 20th century. On August 4, 1914, the so-called Belina Seven, a reconnaissance patrol of Józef Piłsudski’s legionnaires, arrived at the house after crossing the border between two Empires: Austro-Hungary and Russia. In 1924, Marshal Piłsudski himself visited the manor house to unveil a plaque commemorating this event. At the turn of 1944-1945, Czesław Miłosz, the future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived here. In 1981, Lech Wałęsa, leader of Solidarity, a democratic opposition movement that led to the fall of communism in Poland in 1989, visited the place.
The whole property was nationalized after the Second World War when the communists came to power in Poland. Between 1945 and 2002 it was turned into a kolhoz, a state run agrary cooperative. In the meantime the manor house was enlisted as a historical monument protected by the law. The descendants of the last proprietor Zofia z Zawiszów Kernowa bought it from state only in 2002. The building was in a very bad condition and it took them many years to restore the place. From the very beginning the house served as a space for cultural and social events gathering from 50 to 150 visitors each time. Starting from the 2022 the owners run a bed & breakfast business renting 5 comfortable rooms with bathrooms. Every year we host different events as classical and contemporary music instrumental and vocal concerts and workshops, art exhibition openings, literary meetings and history contest for students.