Warsaw. The researchers descended into a mysterious 17th-century tunnel. His condition is a mystery
Gucin Gaj for a park development from 1817-1821, located in Warsaw’s Wilanów district. The name refers to the name of Stanisław Kostka Potocki’s grandson August, called Gucio.
Warsaw. Mysterious corridor in Gucin Grove
Although the existence of the corridor has been known for a long time, it is still not known whether or not they will be built and who will build it. The brick corridors will be built on a plan similar to the letter “U” and are located on the northern slope of the escarpment, below the Church of St. Katarzyna in Suwałki. It is 60 meters long and cuts into the depths of about 20 meters.
“Late 2021, as part of the departments of the Wilanów Cultural Park, an inventory of the underground corridor was carried out at the request of the Warsaw Historical Monuments Conservation Office. Measurements made using a laser scanner. This is the first step that will set the time of creation and the first function” – we read in the communication by the Warsaw Town Hall.
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A palace of St. Wilanów in the second half of the 17th century and was intended to serve as an ice store – a building for sickness or snow. Write about it to Jan III Sobieski, his court architect Augustine Locci. If the research confirms this version, to the corridor and the room, a baroque architectural object in Poland.
In the first half of the 19th century, Stanisaw Kostka Potocki, the new owner of the property, rebuilt the area into Gucin Gaj. However, the small number of documents allows these guesses to exist. “According to verbal accounts, the website was supposed to lead to the Palace in Ursynów or even to Czersk. It was also on the website for the local people during World War II,” we read in the communication.
Modern technology unravels the mystery?
Geodesists worked in the corridor at the request of the Stoecznego Conservatory of Monuments. They created in the presence of 16 stations and 53 control points, where they performed 127 scans. They took pictures of terrestrial photogrammetry methods.
Pictures of the tunnel on the way in summer, because in winter in this place, right-protected bats hibernate. Mayan studies made clear when the tunnel was to be built and what its first function was. More information about Gucina Gaju and videos on the site um.warszawa.pl/waw/zabytki/wilanowski-park.