The best running trails around Żyrardów

There's a large tree growing by the café behind the palace. I remember it being a rare species, and I think it's a Ginkgo biloba. Such a specimen is unique in Poland. It might be a tulip tree, though. I can't remember exactly, but I think someone might be interested in this tree, especially if they're as interested in plants and trees as she is.

Resursa is a term for a social club, e.g. of merchants, landowners, etc., as well as the premises of such a club. The factory resursa in Żyrardów was established around 1870. It housed the Association of Officials of the Joint-Stock Company of Żyrardów Plants. The interior was decorated with splendor. Regulars had at their disposal quiet offices, a specialist library with a reading room, a billiard room and rooms for playing cards. Guest salons were located on the first floor. The theatre (ballroom) hall was enriched with gildings and colorful wall paintings.

The current palace was built between the tower and the early Baroque palace (currently non-existent) and received its current form at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries after a classicist reconstruction carried out by Kazimierz Krasiński, the Crown Campiander, according to the design of Jakub Kubicki. At that time, a columned porch with a terrace in front of the main entrance was also built. The expansion of the palace complex was later continued by Józef Wawrzyniec Krasiński, who created a landscape park around the palace that exists to this day and rebuilt the small castle in the neo-Gothic style, which is the remains of the former Radziejowski tower. Over the following decades, Radziejowice was visited by people of culture, including Juliusz Kossak, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Lucjan Rydel, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Józef Chełmoński, Stanisław Masłowski.

The current brick, three-nave church was built in the years 1572–1585 thanks to the efforts of Father Wawrzyniec Goślicki. The building was consecrated in 1630 by the Bishop of Poznań, Maciej Łubieński. In the following centuries, the temple was destroyed and rebuilt. In the 19th century, the church was expanded with two towers flanking the façade and side naves, and the presbytery was raised and a new sacristy was built. The old sacristy was rebuilt into the chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Mszczonów, with the outbreak of World War II, unfortunately became a particularly important communication point on the route of the German offensive. First, the units of the "Łódź" Army withdrew through here, then German armored columns advancing on Warsaw rolled through its streets, then on September 11, the city was retaken by a daring night attack by the 31st Kaniv Riflemen Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Wincenty Wnuk. For this glorious feat, which went down in the history of that memorable September as one of the most magnificent victories of the Polish soldier, the Germans took their cruel revenge. Stanisław Kasperkiewicz, the headmaster of the then local Public Elementary School No. 1, summed up their barbarity in the school chronicle as follows: "...Blasco Ibanez wrote too little in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". "Cultural" Germans showed their true colors. It is not known whether any other city paid such a tribute of blood and property in the first days of the war as the unfortunate Mszczonów."

Great cafe at the back of the palace

commemorating the Battle of Mszczonów

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