Tatra Museum in Zakopane
The Sołtys Croft at Jurgów
address: Jurgów 215
Oficjalna strona Muzeum Tatrzańskiego: www.muzeumtatrzanskie.pl
The croft is situated in the centre of the village, opposite the old fire
station, on the right of the road leading to the state border. It consists of a
cottage and a farm building arranged in line, with the gable of the cottage in
the front facing the road. Both are constructed of logs connected at the
quoins: the cottage has a lean-to shingle roof and the farm building a batten
roof.
The croft was built in 1871 by the great-grandfather of the last owner. The
cottage consists of three interiors, the vestibule, the chamber and the
bed-chamber. Originally there was an oven with an open furnace for baking bread
in the chamber. The farm building consists of a cart-house, a threshing-floor,
a sheep-fold and a stable.
The croft has survived to this day almost unchanged. Only the oven was
modernized in the 1940s. The furnace was closed with a cast-iron board, and the
smoke was removed to the attic via an exhaust tube. The farm building was
probably enlarged at the same time.
The Tatra Museum purchased the croft in 1981, and in 1982-85 had
conservation-cum-repairs carried out there. An ethnographic exhibition was
arranged in the buildings to show what a poor farmstead in the Spisz region
looked like at the turn of the 19th century, for which purpose the surviving
original furnishings of the cottage and the farm building were largely
used.
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| Soltys Croft. 'White room'.
| Soltys Croft. The sheep-fold.
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Zbigniew Ładygin ysladyg@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Last update 2 June 2002