Dwór w Piaskach Wielkich
Monument · Wolin municipality

Dwór w Piaskach Wielkich

The von Flemming family's manor house of 1931 on Lake Piaski, with a park descending in terraces to the water. After the war a holiday centre and hotel, it has stood empty and decaying since 2009.

The Flemming estate

Piaski passed to the von Flemming family in the 15th century, bought from the von Wükernitz family. The first manor house, known now only from drawings, dated from 1763. In 1909 a new one was built on the same site, but it burned down in 1926. The present building, completed in 1931, was then put up, with a park laid out around it in terraces falling towards the lake. From 1920 the Flemmings went into horticulture, building greenhouses and an irrigation and sprinkler system fed by water from Lake Piaski. The last owner was Richard von Flemming-Paatzig.

After 1945

After the war the manor housed offices, flats, a holiday centre and a training centre of the state farms (PGR) administration in Szczecin. It was thoroughly renovated in 1981, and from the 1990s until 2009 it was the Hotel Piaski. Since then it has stood empty and has been steadily stripped and vandalised.

Architecture

It is a plain single-storey building with no distinct style, rectangular in plan, with a basement, a pitched roof and a usable attic. Inside, a fireplace with the Flemming coat of arms survives. The house is surrounded by a historic park.

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