Zabudowa drewniana na północ od Brzeska

The wooden buildings and its complexes

The Summer Theatre in Brzesko:

The Summer Theatre in Brzesko arose in 1902. The current “Pavilion” restaurant on Wesoła Street is in fact an old temple to Melpomene, the theatrical muse, and belongs to the urban/architectonic complex of the Okocim brewery. It was built under the patronage of Jan II Goetz. The theatre has features of the Zakopane style and was designed by the architect Eugeniusz Wesołowski, who was also an amateur actor. It was erected using post and beam construction (wooden spandrel beams and posts) sealed with brick. Some of the windows and doors are enclosed in frames carved with decorative patterns.

The complex of wooden buildings in Mokrzyska:

The complex of wooden buildings in Mokrzyska is all that remains of the long rows of wooden huts which twenty years ago still dominated the village. Currently you can see a set of buildings with their gables turned to the road, reminding us how such a street layout once looked. The peasant huts with gable or hipped roofs are characteristic of the Kraków style: single-storey, single-bay and built using log construction, they have up to three living spaces. The huts were not boarded and the walls were white-washed or painted blue. White-washing was also used on the strips between the beams of the framework.

The urban layout in Szczepanów:

The urban layout in Szczepanów dates from the C18th. In 1761 Stanisław Lubomirski founded a town on the village land, which helps explain the design of the market square, unusual for a village. Szczepanów lost its civic charter in the C19th. However it has partially retained the old urban layout with brick and wooden buildings on the market square. The village’s appearance was dominated by wooden buildings up until the middle of the C20th. These were mainly single-bay, erected using log construction and covered with thatched hip roofs. The walls were white-washed. At the beginning of the C20th thatch began to be replaced by roof tiles, which led to a change in form to gable roofs.

The buildings in Uście Solne:

The buildings around the market square in Uście Solne date from the second half of the C19th and the C20th. They consist of wooden, log houses, covered by gable or hipped roofs, with two or three rooms. Among the buildings making up the farms there were also barns standing along the external farm streets, an interesting group of which has been preserved to the present day. These buildings have a framework construction, walls woven from wicker and hipped thatched roofs. The local classical-baroque church, dating from the first half of the C19th, has retained its C18th-C19th fittings.