Education programme
In search of a lost landscape - in the footsteps of genius loci Gucina
Starting at the Church of St. Katarzyna on Służewo, ul. Fosa 17, Warsaw
Saturday, 16 September 2017 10:00 a.m. 11.
Please confirm your participation:
warszawa@pbsociety.org.pl
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Participants of the tour will receive a commemorative publishing house about Guin
Gucin, the former court-park foundation of the Wilanowski key, in the bicentenary of its creation focuses on the attention of researchers – naturalists, historians, landscape architects – even though it remains an unknown place for the inhabitants of Warsaw. Little is left of the material tissue, but the historical tradition of the place makes the memory of it still ongoing and admonishes for respect for the beautifully conceived, national in its pronunciation of the work. Lost to a large extent, destroying since the middle of the XIX century has become a place of incursion of wildlife and today it is its valuable mainstay in the urbanocenoza of Warsaw.
The historical establishment of the court and park, created by Stanisław Kostka and his wife Aleksandra Potocki in 1817, was located on the Ursynowska Slope between the Church of St. Peter. Katarzyna and Potok Służewski and belonged to the subsidiary estates of wilanowski key together with Natolin and Morysin. This place selected “for a charming location” at the vistula slope and creek was then embellished by Potocki. After the death of Stanisław Kostka Potocki, his wife’s efforts were founded here an unusual Grove – a monument to the memory of this great patriot, statesman and scholar and his brother Ignatia Potocki. The lightest people of that era planted here trees-monuments, the sound of which after centuries was reminiscent of the great ideas and achievements of the Potocki brothers, but also of their associates. Will we find trees planted here today with the hands of Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, Stanislaw Staszic, Michał Szubert and many others?