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The office of kasztelan (or “castellan”) was created in the early 13th century by the Piast Kings. Over the course of centuries, Poland’s castellans – and their legal and spiritual successors – were charged with managing, maintaining, and expanding many of the historical buildings and estates that lie at the heart of our business.

That spirit of faithful, innovative stewardship demonstrated by generations of castellans is something that we can look to today for inspiration, as we strive to preserve, adapt, and revitalize uniquely treasured homes and post-industrial structures for novel commercial and residential uses in the 21st century.
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The Łazy Palace estate is ideally situated near the Fryderyk Chopin birthplace museum in Żelazowa Wola; just south of Kampinos National Park; 40 km west of Warsaw; and 20 km from Poland’s new central passenger airport in Baranów. Łazy enjoys train service at the nearby Teresin and Sochaczew stations and easy access to state road 580 and national highway 92.
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The history of the family that established the Łazy Palace estate is intertwined with that of the Chopin family and the Skarbek family, in whose nearby manor house the composer Fryderyk Chopin was born in 1810. Indeed, only a gentle stretch of farmland separates Łazy from the manor where Chopin’s parents met and worked together for years.

As the son of a Skarbek himself, the founder of the Łazy estate was related both to the Chopins’ employer, Kacper Skarbek, and to Fryderyk Chopin’s godfather and artistic champion, Count Fryderyk Skarbek. The occupants of Łazy Palace and the Chopin family were essentially neighbors within early 19th-century Sochaczew county, and the estates on which they lived have experienced much shared history over the last two centuries.
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The origins of the village of Łazy date back to at least 1451, the first recorded reference to the locale. The estate that now houses Łazy Palace had come into existence by the 18th century, when it was the property of Onufry Bromirski, a nobleman who served as the starosta or castellan of Płock and Płońsk and who built a wooden manor house on the site that is now the Łazy Palace estate.
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Castellan is your gateway to the vast and diverse array of historic properties that can be found across Poland.

If you’re interested in discovering basic data about historic properties – including their location, type, and year of construction – check …

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