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Fryz mozaikowy Piotra Stachiewicza, znajdujący się w górnej części prezbiterium Bazyliki Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Krakowie, przedstawia Zbawiciela adorowanego przez polskich świętych i błogosławionych oraz przez poszczególne stany Narodu polskiego.
Kraków, Rydlówka
Rydlówka Manor
in Kraków
In Bronowice Małe, near Włodzimierz Tetmajer’s manor, is another one named Rydlówka. It is surrounded by a garden–orchard with picturesque shrubbery. Włodzimierz Tetmajer had the manor constructed in 1894 on the grounds leased from his father-in-law, Jacek Mikołajczyk. It was a wooden, single-storey thatched cottage, with a hall in the axis, two pairs of rooms on either side, and a front porch to the east.
This manor witnessed the famous wedding of poet Lucjan Rydel to Jadwiga Mikołajczykówna, sister of Tetmajer’s wife, Anna. That November evening, in 1900, was immortalised by Stanisław Wyspiański in his famous play entitled The Wedding.
In 1902 Włodzimierz Tetmajer bought the manor previously owned by the Franciscans and moved in with his family. He sold his former dwelling to Lucjan Rydel in 1908, and the new owner took upon himself to refurbish the manor. Reconstruction works, conducted according to Józef Pokutyński’s design, were completed in 1912. A two-storey brick section was added, housing a day-room, a library and a cabinet. The entire roof was covered with tiles.
When the first world war broke out, the Rydel family was forced to abandon the house, which had been appropriated by Austrian officers. The owners returned home in 1915, yet Lucjan Rydel passed away only three years later. In 1969, Helena Rydlowa and her daughter Anna signed a contract with the Polish Tourist Organisation PTTK to establish the Rydlówka Museum of Young Poland (Młoda Polska). The Museum was inaugurated on 20th November 1969, on the anniversary of the historical Lucjan Rydel’s wedding. From 1985 to 1989 the building, remaining the property of the Rydel family, underwent renovation.
The Młoda Polska museum is located in the oldest part of the manor, and consists of four chambers. The first, the so-called ‘Wedding chamber’, was reconstructed according to the stage directions of Stanisław Wyspiański to The Wedding – it is an exact reconstruction of the mise-en-scene during the first-night performance. In the dance room, where dances and traditional marriage ceremonies were performed, Rydel family memorabilia can be seen – among the artefacts, a pastel portrait of the former host and the protagonist of the play, Lucjan Rydel, by Stanisław Wyspiański. In the corner room we find photographs and other mementoes of the guests of the famed wedding party more than 100 years ago, and in the day room, a small gallery of paintings from the period. The latter room is part of the extension introduced by Rydel, once housing his cabinet and library, and today lined with works by Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Jan Stanisławski, Wincenty Wodzinowski, Henryk Uziembło.
