Gołuchów Castle
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| location = Gołuchów, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in Poland
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| built = 1550-1560
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Gołuchów Castle (Polish: Zamek w Gołuchowie) is an early Renaissance castle built in 1550-1560 for Rafał Leszczyński on a square plan and used as a defensive stronghold and residence. The castle is located in Gołuchów, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.{{cite web|title=Zamek W Gołuchowie|url=http://www.zamkipolskie.com/goluc/goluc.html|website=Zamki Polskie|accessdate=4 May 2015}}
History
This early-Renaissance castle was raised in between 1550-1560 close by Trzemna, as small river and estuary of the Prosna. The building was built for Voivode of the Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship, Rafał Leszczyński. The castle was predominantly used for defensive purposes with keeps in the corners of the structure. Leszczyński's son Wacław, the subsequent owner, expanded the residence – making the residence into a magnate Renaissance stronghold.{{Cite web |url=https://podroze.onet.pl/polska/wielkopolskie/goluchow-zamek-czartoryskich-zwiedzanie-i-historia/r2rxp7g |language=pl |title=Zamek w Gołuchowie - kawałek Francji w Wielkopolsce |website=onet.pl |date=2 March 2015 |access-date=1 June 2024}}
In 1853, the partially run-down castle was bought by Count Tytus Działyński, for his son Count Jan Kantega Działyński and his wife, Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The castle was reconstructed between 1872-1885, in the style of the French Renaissance according to the design of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in collaboration with Maurycy Ouradou and Zygmunt Gorgolewski.{{Cite web |url=https://dipp.info.pl/baza-dipp/wielkopolskie/powiat-pleszewski/gmina-goluchow/zamek-w-goluchowie |language=pl |title=Zamek w Gołuchowie |website=dipp.info.pl |access-date=1 June 2024}} The residence is surrounded by a 158-hecatre landscape park, the largest one in Greater Poland Voivodeship, designed by Adam Kubaszewski, which asserted additional Romanesque and English architectural styles upon the castle. In 1939, the private museum located in the castle was plundered by Nazi Germans. Parts of the collection were subsequently recovered in the 1950s and 1960s.{{Cite web |url=https://podroze.onet.pl/polska/wielkopolskie/goluchow-zamek-czartoryskich-zwiedzanie-i-historia/r2rxp7g |language=pl |title=Zamek w Gołuchowie - kawałek Francji w Wielkopolsce |website=onet.pl |date=2 March 2015 |access-date=28 May 2024}} After the Second World War, the castle has served as a branch of the National Museum in Poznań (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu).{{cite web|title=Muzeum Zamkowe Gołuchów|url=http://www.mnp.art.pl/muzeum/oddzialy/muzeum-zamek-w-goluchowie/|website=Muzeum Narodowe Poznań|accessdate=4 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506071600/http://www.mnp.art.pl/muzeum/oddzialy/muzeum-zamek-w-goluchowie|archive-date=6 May 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Gołuchów Zamek|url=http://zamki.res.pl/goluchow.htm|website=Zamki|accessdate=4 May 2015}}
In 2016, the castle was bought by the Polish State Treasury from the Princes Czartoryski Foundation for PLN 20 million.{{cite news |title=Minister kupił też zamek Czartoryskich |first=Piotr |last=Bojarski |url= |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |language=pl |page=19 |date=11 January 2017}}
Gallery
File:Album widokow przedstawiajacych miejsca historyczne Ksiestwa Poznanskiego i Prus Zachodnich 1880 (5414387) (cropped).jpg|Gołuchów Castle by Napoleon Orda, 1880
File:Castillo de Goluchow, Polonia, 2016-12-21, DD 16.jpg|French renaissance-style Castle
File:SM Gołuchów Zamek 2022 (3952).jpg|A view from the park
File:SM Gołuchów Zamek - dziedziniec 2022 (3977).jpg|Inner courtyard
File:Gołuchów2003AJurk065.jpg|Neo-renaissance decorations of the facade
File:2008 08050232 - Gołuchów - zespół zamkowy - zamek - wnętrza.JPG|Bedroom with 17th-century Spanish furniture
File:Gołuchów wnętrza Zamku 05.JPG|19th-century coffered ceiling and 18th-century tapestry
File:Gołuchów wnętrza Zamku 07.JPG|Castle interiors
File:Gołuchów - dawna oficyna (2).jpg|An outbuilding near the castle
File:Floris Last Supper.jpg|The Last Supper by Frans Floris, 16th century
See also
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Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1560