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Chateau chapel in Krysowice

ID: POL-002217-P/165014

Chateau chapel in Krysowice

Variants of the name:
Kościół parafialny pw. Matki Boskiej Fatimskiej w Krysowicach

Historical outline
The village is situated about 4 km south of Mościska. The name "Krysowice" comes from the Ruthenian family "Krys". The recorded owners of the estate were as follows from the 15th century: Jan Kunat of Tuligłów, Hermanowski, Grochowscy (17th century), Złoczowscy of Grabie coat of arms, Mniszkowie of Poraj coat of arms, and finally, in the years 1844-1939, Stadniccy of Szreniawa coat of arms. The village was part of the parish in Mościski.

Under the Mniszek family, before 1780, a magnificent palace was built in Krysowice together with a chapel consecrated by the Lviv Archbishop Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski. At the beginning of the 20th century it served as a public religious building. On Sundays and feast days, services were held there, conducted by the Redemptorists of Mościce. During the First World War, Russian soldiers left the chapel untouched, concentrating on destroying and looting the palace. A similar situation occurred in 1939. In the 1950s, the palace was demolished, but the chapel was converted into a warehouse. It was returned to the faithful in 1990. Between 1991 and 1995, the building was repaired, extended and converted into the Church of Our Lady of Fatima.

Architecture
The chapel was located on the north side of the palace. Interestingly, there was a link between it and the palace, which led to the empora (music choir). The chapel was a brick building with the use of stone. It was built on a square ground plan. The interior was not divided. The whole was covered with a monastery vault. The façades were also without divisions, closed with a profiled cornice, below which ran a frieze of pointed arcades. The interior was entirely covered with illusionist paintings. In the corners of the chapel there were broken pilasters carrying the broken beams above them, encircling all the walls.

As Andrzej Betlej writes in his study of the building, despite the poor documentation, art historians find deep and interesting artistic issues in the former chapel. One reason for this may be the conflict over the chronology of the creation of the individual parts. For it is not entirely clear whether the chapel or the palace was built first. Another curiosity is the building material of the sacred building, i.e. brick. It is worth noting that most of the palace buildings were... made of wood. The surviving parts of the wall paintings were created using the technique of real frescoes. They were most likely created by Stanisław Stroiński, an outstanding painter from Lviv, who lived between 1719 and 1804.

Time of origin:
1780
Bibliography:
  • Andrzej Betlej, „Kaplica pałacowa w Krysowicach”, w: „Materiały do dziejów sztuki sakralnej na ziemiach wschodnich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej”, cz. 1: „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie dawnego województwa ruskiego”, Kraków: Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury w Krakowie, 1999, ISBN 83-85739-66-1, t. 7, s. 119-124.
Publikacja:
09.10.2024
Ostatnia aktualizacja:
12.10.2024
Author:
Michał Dziadosz
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