Home for children and orphans in the Mortgage

The pledge - "a Charitable institution (pawn) for orphans and the poor" — social institutions abduhalikov of scale count Skarbek. Known to the landowner, philanthropist and adventurer Stanislaw Skarbek was the founder of the theatre in Lviv. The theater, which now bears the name of Maria Zankovetska, an outdoor Skarbek in 1842, at that time was the largest theatre building in Europe, designed for 1460 viewers.

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Palace Bet almost the largest in Lviv. Built in English neo-Renaissance style based on the Austrian residence of Skarbek in the town of Nussdorf, it is U-shaped in plan, has three floors of the Central volume, the four floors of the lateral volumes and a five-story towers at the corners. And around the cottages, a greenhouse, a landscaped Park with a lake and pavilions.

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A charitable institution for orphans and needy founded by Stanislaw Skarbek in 1843, the count bequeathed all his property — theatre in Lviv, 3 in town and 29 villages, for he founded the Bet. But, alas, Skarbek, who died in October, 1848, his creation and saw. The Palace was built more than a decade through the efforts of the nephew of count Stanislaw Wladyslaw Skarbek, and the Pledge was inaugurated only on March 17, 1875.

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Social institution meant for the poor 400, and 600 orphans who were brought up strictly in the Catholic spirit. The Bet was accepted only under strict rules. So, his clients could be only the Galicians. The exceptions were the persons who had estates in Galicia. To the "poor" belonged to persons who had no means of subsistence, and the elderly, who in normal circumstances could not provide a decent living. For the "poor" there was an age limit: 60 years for men and 55 years for women. Seriously ill in the Pledge was not accepted. Orphans belonged to children aged 7 — 10 years and girls 6 — 8 years with no parents and who had no opportunity to contain family.

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Much of the Mortgage was paid to the education of youth. Guys get jobs: blacksmith, locksmith, tinsmith, carpenter, Cooper, Stelmach, a saddle-maker. And the girls got jobs in the service sector in the field of cooking, gardening, sewing, housework. Last but not least was cultural education, in particular, was held music lessons. Graduates were even actors and Directors. For violation of the rules of the orphans punished by reducing or elimination from the gym, poor nutrition, "isolation". Bodily could punish only boys and only by order of the Director of a Mortgage.

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Today the Pledge is an extremely sad place. Depression attached to it located next to the Palace of corrective labor colony. Now in a huge Palace houses a psychiatric hospital. The interior is nothing old was preserved. In the lobby a memorial plaque in honor of the count and the sculpture of the virgin.

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Near the village — the so-called Skladovsky forest — former forest Park, part of which was occupied by a cemetery. Surrounded by forests, among the thickets will be difficult to find an old abandoned chapel. And it can be even harder to approach her. This dilapidated chapel is the burial place of the founder of the Bet count Stanislaw Skarbek. However, after the death of the Earl was buried in Lviv at Lychakiv cemetery, and only after the opening Pledge of his remains were reburied in the chapel.

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Today the chapel is a horrible sight. Among the first looters were Soviet invaders in 1939, who plundered graves and thrown out of the crypt the remains of count-benefactor. Since that time, the chapel gradually fell into decay. The last chord in the destruction of the Shrine was the fall of the roof in the spring of 2009. The efforts of the barbarians has disappeared and the cemetery around the chapel. The lack of people around the human in the example with a Mortgage reached its climax…

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