Owners

Heritage is tangible and intangible and everything that lies between the two. Is what we decide it to be and what we perceive as our identities. Is what we choose to be and what we choose to believe in. It's dusk and dawn. Interwoven with our ancestors and our beliefs. Its what we decide to do that matters the most. We mustn't forget where we came from and need to see clearly where we are heading.

The time is indifferent to anyone and anything, however buildings stood tall proving wrong the doubters. On many occasions pre-war owners deprived of their life savings were trying meticulously and tirelessly to get back what was rightfully theirs. At our foundation we want to give families deprived of their own cultural heritage, by war or political circumstances, the possibility of regaining their past as a foundation stone for the future, for the benefit of their houses, their communities and for the tapestry of Poland’s national culture.

By working closely with each family that regained the ownerships of their ancestral home we develop and help to implement and execute short as well as long term goals on rebuilding our common heritage. We help finding new uses for the houses which cannot sustain themselves and give opportunities to families on creating short term solutions to boost their renovation capital.

By having an inside marketing agency we can develop and implement advertisements campaigns for each of the houses and run a donation campaigns as well as crowdfunding on their behalf.

We give redundant or derelict historic buildings a purpose fit for the 21 century.

An old stately home located in the small town of Dukla a true hidden gem on the outskirts of modern Poland. The origins of the earliest building date back to the mid 16th Century to a renaissance castle.

It was most likely built by the Lord of Dukla Jan Jordan. The next owners were the Zborowski, Drohojewski and Męciński families. During the next century the castle fell into disrepair. In 1636-38 the new owner Franciszek Bernard Mniszech redeveloped the castle adding a new building to the west side and fortified it with four defensive bastions resulting in a fortified palace.

The next redevelopment was carried out in 1764-65 by Jerzy August Wandalin Mniszech and his wife Maria Amalia, of the house Brühl. In this period they expanded the existing palace adding another storey with a mansard roof. The author of the project was most likely the Dresden architect Jan Fryderyk Knobl and the works were managed by the architect Leonard Andrys. On the site of two of the bastions outbuildings were built and the remaining fortifications were dismantled. In their place a park in the style of a French formal garden was created.

In 1989 after the fall of Communism Stanislaw the rightful owner of the Dukla Estate started procedures to reclaim his property. Following lengthy legal court cases the palace and park were returned to Stanislaw's children in the autumn of 2012.

Located in the Palace is a History Museum. The Museum holds permanent exhibitions on the history of the Dukla Palace, military exhibits from both world wars and open air exhibits of heavy artillery.

The Palace complex consists of three buildings, the central palace and two outbuildings. The palace grounds are 10 hectares in size. The park consists of three lakes, an ice house, a burial chapel (built in 1925) and the ruins of the green houses.