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[The palace in Rejowiec] [An iconographic document]
Creator: Date issued/created: Description:The photograph shows a vast palace with a fragment of a garden-park. The two-storey building was built in neoclassical style in the mid-nineteenth century. The side wing of the palace is decorated with a colonnade. At the bottom of a photo there is an inscription in German: Palast 1916 Rejowiec ; 1916, Rejowiec, lubelskie voivodeship ; The author of the photograph was the father of the photo owner. He was an engineer - building roads and bridges (a specialization in the former KK Austria), Mikołaj Bogdanowicz. During the 1st World War, as a native of Galicia, he was appointed to the Austrian army. In this army he was the commander of three companies of engineers, one of whom was Jewish company. The area of its operation was Volhynia and partially Podolia, where during many months of "stopping" of the front he was building trenches, roads, bridges, etc. ; The photo sent to the contest named “Photography of the Polish village pre-1948” organized in 1983 by the quarterly “Fotografia” (Photography) and the weekly “Nowa Wieś” (New village). Copy of the photo kept at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (former Institute for the History of Material Culture)
Type of object: Subject and Keywords:Ossoliński Palace (Rejowiec, Polska) ; material culture ; architecture ; buildings ; palace ; Rejowiec, Chełm district (Poland)
Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Format: Source: Rights:Rights Reserved - Restricted Access
Terms of use: Digitizing institution:Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Original in:Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Projects co-financed by:Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund
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