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Sadyba Lenkevychiv-Valivs’kykh u Hoshchi (Lenkiewicz-Walewski Estate in Hoshcha)

The estate was built in the late 18th – early 19th centuries in classicism and modernism style inspired by the designs of Swiss chalet style.

Status:

Architectural monument.

Location:

Rivne Oblast, Hoshcha Territorial Community (Hromada), Hoshcha Urban-Type Settlement, the territory of the park.

Coordinates:

50.59892, 26.67339

Travel Distance to the City of Rivne by Road:

32,5 km

Description:

The palace of Walewski landowners, who owned the estate in Hoshcha in the 1840s, is unique for Ukraine. It is designed in the Swiss chalet style, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditional alpine building designs characterised by façades richly decorated with wooden balconies and carved ornaments and widely projecting roofs.

The chalet is surrounded by the largest peripheral park in the region with a total area of about 7 hectares, which begins directly on the porch of the estate. The park is overgrown, however it has not lost its appeal, and old ash and chestnut trees (in general there are about 30 species of trees and shrubs), which surround the outdated chalet, only emphasise the exceptional beauty and uniqueness of the past times.

In Soviet times, the southern façade (and partly the northern one) was covered with ordinary tiles, which turned the estate into an ordinary house of the socialist era. For a long time, there were offices of different institutions in the premises of the estate, such as the district executive committee, the social security department, the civil registration office, an art workshop, a law firm, and the municipal trade union. Since 1978, it has been the building of the central district library.

As of 2021, the Lenkiewicz-Walewski Estate is empty. The building is being reconstructed at the own cost and expense of the local community and activists. They plan to create a museum in the estate

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