Date made: 2011-09-18
Pieskowa Rocks and – settlement in the village Suloszowa, within one of its three villages, located in the Valley Prądnik near Krakow, in Ojcowski National Park, known primarily from the castle of the same name.
The castle was first mentioned as a Peskenstein document issued in 1315 year by Ladislaus the Short. In the first half of the fourteenth century, Casimir III the Great built a castle here, part of the chain of defense “Nests”, consisting of two parts: upper and lower. Upper, not survived, was erected on inaccessible rock called “Dorotką”.
In the years 1377-1608 Castle was the seat of the family Szafraniec ? some of them used it as a starting point for attacks on merchants passing through the Valley Prądnik running Tract connecting Cracow and Silesia. In the year 1484 Krzysztof Szafraniec, great-grandson of the original owner, for it was beheaded at Wawel.
In the years 1542-1580 Gothic castle was transformed into a Renaissance residence. In the seventeenth century, at the time of Michael Zebrzydowski bastion fortification system was built. During the Swedish invasion (1655) The castle was destroyed, and in 1718 has fire. It was rebuilt as the seat of the Wielopolskis in 1768 year. In 1787 hosted within its walls of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski. As a result of the next fire (1850) were destroyed oldest part of the, tj. high castle.
In the Kingdom of Polish commune existed Pieskowa Rock.
During the January Uprising Russian shelling caused another fire and destruction of valuable interior.
In 1842 the Pieskowa Rock bought from the family of Count Jan Wielopolskis Mieroszewski. 4 i 5 brand 1863 in Pieskowa and nearby Rock was a battle insurgents under the command of Marian Langiewicz Russian army, was killed during the fighting on the side of the Poles Russian colonel Andriy Potebnia. In the eighties, another of Mieroszewskich ? Sobieslaw led the castle renovations enriching it with elements of Gothic. Known for his rakish lifestyle Count Christopher Mieroszewski ? Sobieslaw son squandered the family estate, selling, among other things castle. After a short time, Michal Wilczynski new owner sold the castle of Dr.. Seraphim Chmurskiemu, who built villas at the foot of the castle trying to give Pieskowa character cottage. In 1902 as a result of debt assets Serafina Chmurskiego, last, private owner Pieskowej Rocks, castle went up for auction.
Adolf Dygasiński turned the pages “Warsaw Courier” with an appeal to rescue the castle, Pearls of Polish Renaissance, the one on the trail of the Eagles' Nests, which survived in good condition. Through this initiative was established “Stock Society Pieskowa Rock”, who bought the castle for the amount of 60 thousand rubles.
After World War II the castle in Pieskowa took over the Treasury, after general renovation in years 1950-1963 became a branch of the State Art Collection at Wawel. Currently, there is a permanent exhibition “Style transformations in European art from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century”. Castle quite frequently appears in films. He played m.in. in the series “Janosik” and “Rate larger than life”.
Information taken from http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieskowa_Ska%C5%82a.
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| Technique: | |
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| apparatus: | Canon 500D |
| lens: | Falcon 8mm/F:3,5 |
| exposure: | 8, 1/200 , ISO100 |
| type: | Spherical panorama |
| HDR: | so, fusion + tone mapping |
| location: | Pieskowa Rocks and (Lesser) |