Romantic Castle

The photograph presents the Little Castle, situated by the former roadway in the northern part of the park, beyond the moat ˗ a view at the eastern façade. It was erected for Marshal Princess Izabella Lubomirska née Czartoryska (deceased in 1816) as her place of solitude by Christian Peter Aigner, together with the plasterer Frederick Bauman, with whom he worked in Łańcut on the Gloriette, the orangery and the Classicist representative interiors on the first floor of the Little Castle ˗ the Ballroom, the Grand Dining Room with the Chapel located nearby, in the south-western tower and the Theatre. The Little Castle, with the Classicist and neo-Gothic façades (in the spirit of Romanticism), was originally surrounded by a moat. The characteristic element of the Little Castle’s architecture is the strongly protruding tower in the north-eastern corner, originally covered with a bulbous cupola. Inside, Aigner and Bauman created Classicist rooms decorated with stuccoes with the impressive spinning rosette in the vault of the three-storey tower. The staircase was decorated with an illusionist painting imitating a wall made of stone, overgrown with vine and ivy. Originally, the Little Castle was equipped with a two-winged intarsia door with a figural painting, which after the Princes’ death was transferred to the Castle. Aldona Cholewianka-Kruszyńska