Croft from Zagorzyn

This was a prosperous Goral farm at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The cottage from Zagorzyn is made of logs, unbleached except for the area around the windows in the southern part, and the walls are thickly clayed and painted with lime. The porch was added in the 1920s. The gable and balcony are decorated with openwork motifs known from sanatorium buildings. They became widespread in the 1920s and 1930s as an imitation of houses in the nearby Szczawnica. The cottage has a central through hallway with a kitchen and a small room on one side and a large room and annexe on the other. The cottage belonged to Wincenty Myjak – a wealthy farmer and wójt, a People’s Party deputy to the National Sejm in Lviv between 1908 and 1913, and between 1911 and 1918 to the parliament in Vienna. The cottage in the open-air museum is arranged to resemble the MP’s house with decorative elements atypical for an old village. The chamber is a presentable, elegant room where Wincenty Myjak received guests and held village meetings. The room contains a set of furniture made to Myjak’s order by a Kraków carpenter. The adjoining annexe is a study with a desk and armchairs from a Kraków workshop and Viennese chairs. Other decorative elements in both rooms have a burgher character as well: oil landscapes, a clock, an étagère with books, and trunks used by Myjak during his many journeys. In the kitchen, there is a stove with a cover (‘kapa’), and, on the opposite side, a brick-lined utility corner where water was kept, laundry was done, and meals were prepared. Like the large room, the small one combines burgher and rural elements. A burgher-style chest of drawers and table stand here, as well as a wardrobe and beds that suit burgher fashion. The owner’s daughters used to sleep in the small room; they decorated the interior with paintings, postcards, and family photos. The granary from Kicznia was built around 1870. The ground floor is built of stone, while the wooden first floor and gallery, added in the 1920s, served as a holiday residence for a priest, a member of the family. The granary is richly decorated in the Szczawnica style; it has an openwork balustrade and decorative gable boards. The second granary, situated opposite the cottage on the other side of the road, entirely made of wood, was built in 1880 in Zagorzyn. Later, another floor and a porch with openwork decorations were added. Additionally, the croft includes buildings moved from Kamienica: a stable, a barn, a treadmill (‘kierat’) shed from Maszkowice, and a reconstructed fruit-drying shed.


 
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