Cellar. Castle Baths. Corridor with toilet

Time of construction: 1928
Architects: Tadeusz Dachowski (?)

Description:
The most modern undertaking in the Łańcut castle of the last ordinate of Alfred Antoni Potocki in the 20th-century interwar period was the construction of the so-called Roman Baths in 1928 in part of the basement. They were accessed from the northern, single-story corridor. Another way of communication between the baths and all floors was through the elevator. This recreational complex, consisting of vaulted chambers lined with porcelain tiles or wainscot and embellished with painted decorations, was intended for broadly understood physical renewal: exercise, massage, electro- and hydrotherapy. They have a whole system of modern bathtubs and balneological and gymnastic equipment. The baths were decorated exquisitely: they are accessed by wide, sumptuous stairs. The waiting room and the bar with painted decorations on the walls and ceilings, with heavy curtains between the rooms, are discreetly illuminated by wall lamps. There are leather club armchairs and sofas, and the bar has a tall counter and stools. The ordinate invited his guests to the baths - being there became one of the attractions in Łańcut. The corridor leading to the elevator where one enters the waiting room is a narrow, long, straight-angled vaulted interior with high wooden panelling and painting decoration in the form of a smooth border with stylised rocailles and single flowers around the edges of the walls and vault, and framing four wall lamps. The floor is made of white and black square tiles in a checkerboard pattern. In the first part of the corridor, on the eastern side, there is a small, rectangular vaulted washroom closed with a wooden single-wing door, with a toilet, a small corner washbasin and a rectangular mirror on the northern wall. The walls are 2/3 lined with square Prussian blue tiles with a narrow convex red frieze and a pedestal made of black tiles. Above the tiles, the walls and the vault are smoothly painted with a narrow strip running around the edges. The floor is lined with small square black tiles and hexagonal red tiles in the centre. All metal elements are in gold.

Cholewianka-Kruszyńska Aldona, Łańcut. Dzieje rezydencji Potockich, Bosz, 2009, pp. 125-126 Paterak Marta, Łaźnie i elektroterapia w zamku w Łańcucie, Biuletyn GBL, No. 349, 1994, p. 83 Piotrowski Józef, Zamek w Łańcucie: zwięzły opis dziejów i zbiorów, Lviv 1933, p. 45 Silber J.S, /Inwentarz fideikomisowy/, 1932, typescript, MZŁ Archive, R/55, k.96

Aldona Cholewianka-Kruszyńska