Rossocha r is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Rawa Mazowiecka

Gmina Rawa Mazowiecka

Gmina Rawa Mazowiecka is a rural gmina in Rawa County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the town of Rawa Mazowiecka, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina....

, within Rawa County

Rawa County

Rawa County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Rawa Mazowiecka, which lies east of...

, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 54 km (34 mi) east of the regional capital Łódź.

Before World War II

World War II

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, it was part of a szlachta

Szlachta

The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...

 (Polish nobility) estate, belonging to Jan Czarnowski

Jan Czarnowski

Jan Franciszek Czarnowski was a Polish nobleman of Grabie coat of arms who was Papal chamberlain to Pope Pius XI, and head of the Polish Priory of the Order of the Knights of Malta. He was married to Helena Kalinowska, and owned the Rossocha estate, where he commissioned a palace, built by...

. The Czarnkowski's family palace was built shortly after World War I

World War I

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 by Juliusz Nagórski; it was a small but luxurious holiday palace.

After the war, part of the estate was turned into a biological and zoological research station.