{"id":175060,"date":"2026-03-20T19:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.o-nauce.pl\/?p=175060"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:58:26","slug":"count-wadysaw-zamoyski-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.o-nauce.pl\/?p=175060","title":{"rendered":"Count W\u0142adys\u0142aw Zamoyski – Master from Wielkopolska – Lord of the Tatras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ prev_background_color=”#ffffff” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_color=”#efefef” background_image=”https:\/\/www.o-nauce.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zamoyski-cien.jpg” top_divider_style=”slant2″ top_divider_height=”57px” top_divider_flip=”horizontal” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_post_title author=”off” date=”off” comments=”off” featured_image=”off” text_color=”light” _builder_version=”4.16″ title_font=”|||on|||||” title_font_size=”32px” text_orientation=”center” animation_style=”zoom” title_font_size_tablet=”26px” title_font_size_phone=”” title_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_shadow_style=”preset3″ text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0.08em” text_shadow_vertical_length=”0.08em” global_colors_info=”{}”]\r[\/et_pb_post_title][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ module_class=”guzik_do_filmu” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Nag\u0142\u00f3wek” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ global_colors_info=”{}”]
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A historical documentary commemorating a great patriot of humble origins, whose heart belonged to the Tatra Mountains and thanks to whom we can enjoy the Polish Morskie Oko lake today.<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”#film_kotwica” button_text=”Film – Zobacz” button_alignment=”left” admin_label=”Guzik – Przejd\u017a do Film – tylko MOBILE” module_class=”videokotwicaguzik” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_button=”on” button_icon=”||divi||400″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_text admin_label=”Nag\u0142\u00f3wek” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ global_colors_info=”{}”]

W\u0142adys\u0142aw Zamoyski<\/strong><\/h4>\n

(Count of the Jelita coat of arms \u2013 born November 18, 1853, in Paris, died October 3, 1924, in K\u00f3rnik \u2013 Polish social activist and founder of the K\u00f3rnik Foundation)<\/em><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_testimonial portrait_url=”https:\/\/www.o-nauce.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fotWZ_001161.jpg” quote_icon=”off” quote_icon_color=”#2a5a53″ portrait_width=”200″ portrait_height=”200″ admin_label=”Sylwetka” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ body_font=”||on||||||” body_text_color=”#2a5a53″ body_font_size=”18″ use_background_color=”off” animation_style=”fade” border_color_all=”#cecece” border_radii_portrait=”on|200px|200px|200px|200px” border_width_all_portrait=”5px” border_color_all_portrait=”#f0f2f3″ box_shadow_style_image=”preset1″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Count W\u0142adys\u0142aw Zamoyski \u2014 a nobleman from Greater Poland, born and educated in Paris. He inherited the estate in K\u00f3rnik, near Pozna\u0144. Exiled from his own home, he settled in Zakopane. It was there that he purchased Morskie Oko. In his own way, he waited and fought \u2014 for an independent Homeland. In his last will and testament, he bequeathed his entire fortune to the Polish Nation.<\/p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_text admin_label=”Zawarto\u015b\u0107 tekstowa artyku\u0142u” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ global_colors_info=”{}”]

Zamoyski once wrote in one of his letters:<\/p>\n

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„The fortune that God placed in my hands, I have never considered my own property, but the property of Poland, in my temporary possession; a property from which I must not lose a single thing, and which is to serve the Fatherland alone, not me. For my personal needs, I have never taken a single cent from K\u00f3rnik. I have never allowed myself any luxuries. I denied myself everything that did not seem strictly indispensable. But where I believed the cause required it, I spared no effort. I had but one fervent desire: that these efforts be effective and that the aid given not be wasted. It is not about me\u2014for I need very little\u2014but about the harm done to the public cause, which everything at my disposal serves and shall continue to serve.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are extraordinary people among us. The life of Count W\u0142adys\u0142aw Zamoyski is proof of that.<\/p>\n

He was the grandson of Tytus Dzia\u0142y\u0144ski and inherited the K\u00f3rnik estate from Tytus’s son, Jan Dzia\u0142y\u0144ski. He was also the owner of the lands formerly known as the „Zakopane Estate.” This territory encompassed one-third of today’s Polish Tatra Mountains, including Ku\u017anice, everything above Zakopane, areas surrounding and within the town, and the Ko\u015bcieliska Valley. He bought this estate at an auction as a „pile of stones” stripped of trees, for no one else wanted it. Zamoyski risked much, as those who intended to buy did so only to exploit the people, clear-cut the forests for paper, and crush the stone for rubble.<\/p>\n

Thus, Zamoyski saved the Tatras from destruction. He brought order and culture where they were lacking. He planted forests, built a railway, several schools, waterworks, and a power plant. He held stakes in nearly every venture that enabled the development of the Polish highlander culture (g\u00f3ralszczyzna<\/i>). It was during that time that this specific Polish culture\u2014so close to everyone\u2019s heart, yet both primal and contemporary\u2014was shaped and tempered.<\/p>\n

Without the influence of „the Manor,” as the locals called it, such dynamic and multi-dimensional development of this region could never have happened. Even Morskie Oko would likely be Slovak today, much like the Spi\u0161 region, were it not for Zamoyski\u2019s persistence and commitment.<\/p>\n

He was rarely in K\u00f3rnik; expelled from Prussia as a citizen of another country, he could not live in his own home. Nevertheless, he multiplied his Greater Poland fortune and preserved the treasures of K\u00f3rnik. He had a „head for business,” immense diligence, a sense of duty, luck in his ventures, and a profound faith in God and the possibility of Poland regaining independence. To this cause, he dedicated everything\u2014personal, social, and professional.<\/p>\n

At the end of his life\u2014when Poland was already independent\u2014he established a Foundation and bequeathed everything\u2014his K\u00f3rnik and his Tatras with Zakopane\u2014to us: to all Poles.<\/p>\n

By vanishing from the pages of history in such a way, the Dzia\u0142y\u0144ski family of the Ogo\u0144czyk coat of arms and one line of the Zamoyski family sought to redeem, through a powerful work of great value, at least a part of what their ancestors had lost. They proved themselves to be true nobility. We, living today, must never forget them or people like them.<\/p>\n

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The film features:<\/span><\/p>\n

Prof. Andrzej Kwilecki<\/b> \u2013 Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM),\u00a0Prof. Kazimierz Karolczak<\/b> \u2013 Pedagogical University of Krakow,\u00a0Prof. Stanis\u0142aw Hodorowicz,\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Wanda Karkuci\u0144ska<\/b> \u2013 The K\u00f3rnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN),\u00a0Miros\u0142aw Kwieci\u0144ski<\/b> \u2013 The K\u00f3rnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN),\u00a0Dr. Danuta P\u0142ygawko<\/b> \u2013 Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM),\u00a0Dr. Jerzy Roszkowski<\/b> \u2013 The Tatra Museum in Zakopane,\u00a0Dr. Marcin Guzik<\/b> \u2013 Tatra National Park (TPN),\u00a0Piotr B\u0105k<\/b> \u2013 The W\u0142adys\u0142aw Zamoyski Club in Zakopane,\u00a0Tomasz Dziado\u0144<\/b> \u2013 Tatra National Park (TPN),\u00a0Sister Ambrozja Anna Stelmach<\/b> \u2013 St. Albert\u2019s Hermitage at Kalat\u00f3wki,\u00a0Teresa Gro\u0144czak,\u00a0<\/b>Maria W\u00f3jcik<\/b><\/p>\n

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The film utilizes:<\/span><\/p>\n

Archive materials from the collections of:<\/p>\n