The ruined Baroque Warszycki palace from the late 17th century in Włodowice, entered in the heritage register again.
The palace in Włodowice is the ruin of a Baroque residence, located on Krakowska street in the centre of the village. As a result of fires in 1924 and 1956 and many years of neglect, the building is unfit for use. The fire of 1956 lasted six days. The site is owned by the State Treasury.
Originally a larch manor house of the Firlej family stood here, which burned down during the Swedish Deluge. In the second half of the 17th century, probably in 1669-1681, the Castellan of Kraków Stanisław Warszycki built a brick palace, completed in 1681. It was a two-storey building with a cellar in the Polish Baroque style, covered with a mansard roof. At the front it had a courtyard, and behind the building a garden, in a layout referring to French entre cour et jardin designs.
According to the Diary of the Vienna expedition of Prince Jakub Sobieski, King John III Sobieski stayed here on 26 July 1683, and Augustus III of Saxony stayed the night on 12 March 1734. In the 18th century the palace belonged to the Męciński family, who gave the interiors a Neoclassical look, and in the 19th century to the Poleski family. Michał Antoni Kazimierz Poleski, a naturalist and participant in the January Uprising, settled here around 1870 and founded a higher agricultural school with laboratories, a library and a collection of minerals and specimens of Jurassic flora. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries a rebuilding gave the structure neo-Gothic features.
The palace and the outbuilding were entered in the heritage register in 1967. The palace was removed from it in 1989 and the outbuilding in 2010, and the ruins were entered again by a decision of 31 August 2023. Next to it stands the Church of St Bartholomew the Apostle, and from Włodowice it is close to the castles of the Jura, among them in Morsko, in Mirów and in Bobolice.
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