Archbishop's Palace (Obroshino)
manor, mansion
304m
Pustomytivs'kyi district, L'vivs'ka oblast

The ensemble of buildings dating from the beginning of the eighteenth century, is situated in the village Obroshino are outstanding examples of the Baroque period country estate in Ukraine

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Previous names
Archbishop's Palace (Obroshino), Палац Архієпископів (с. Оброшине), Pałac Arcybiskupi (Obroshino)
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The ensemble of buildings dating from the beginning of the eighteenth century, is situated in the village Obroshino are outstanding examples of the Baroque period country estate in Ukraine ...

Archbishop Filvarok with a set of residential buildings, the palace, "the Italian fleet" and lime avenue can be considered the greatest ornament of the village Obroshino.

 

The origins of the monument is 1730, when the funds of the Polish archbishop Skarbka village built a summer palace for recreation high dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church in the Rococo style.

Palace gates "guarded" by two sculptural images, one of which resembles the biblical prophet with a beard and rags instead of clothes, and another - a fashionable dandy like this in the eighteenth century, in a cocked hat and jacket, which looks from under the lace collar shirt. Until recently, one of the towers decorated with old clock that went and knocked on the whole village an hour to almost 80 years of the last century.

Around two-story wing (one of which is a chapel, and the other is neglected), the design of the courtyard dvokolonnymy porticos. Once they were rooms for servants, which was built simultaneously with the palace and reconstructed in the 20s of last century. These adjacent hexagonal extension, which in ancient times were coach stables. In ancient times there was a refuge, even the coach of the Polish king Jan Sobieski. To one of the outbuildings adjacent one-story building of the old dining room. Pentagonal palace courtyard surrounded by walls of the same building in 1730.

 

In the middle of the yard and found the palace itself, built of brick, designed by architect J. Fontana. Four small amounts in the form of squares on the sides of the palace resemble their outlines tower defense estates of XVII-XVIII centuries. Finishing work carried out later - at 60 years of the eighteenth century.

In the late nineteenth century, the palace was decorated with portraits of all the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lviv, it was surprisingly good library.

In the years 1914-15 the palace plundered by Russian troops. After the withdrawal of the Russian army and the Ukrainian-Polish war in the palace during the years 1922-25 and reconstructed partially modified planning structure and interior. Thus, elevations received modernist decor, main portal has been redesigned from the park added a balcony to spiral pillars, decorative stone set on a terrace with stairs. The terrace, which goes to the park, you can see the real stone zoo: Animals still porozsidalysya around large vases.

 From 1941 to 1944 he lived in the palace of the German military command. After the war was equipped with a kind of school-college, where educated drivers, tractor drivers and mechanics from many surrounding villages. Later the building was the body of the Research Institute of Agriculture and Livestock western regions of Ukraine.

Now the summer palace, the residence is located in Lviv Catholic Archbishops Library Research Institute of Agriculture and Livestock western regions of Ukraine.