The genesis of establishing manor farm complexes dates back to the 14th century. Within the historical process, they have been functioning for several hundred years. They were a basis of the Polish agriculture and farming under varying political, social and economic systems. They were arable farms, and constituted uniform and planned layouts. Manor farm complexes consisted of a manor and home farm. The manor was the residence of the proprietor; it was situated within a zone of parks and gardens beautified by small architecture objects. The home farm, owing to its role, gravitated towards a manor complex and arable lands, as well as towards village and markets. The whole spatial system was connected by an internal and external network of roads and paths. After the WW II in 1944, a decree on agricultural reform put an end to the traditional Polish manor farm complexes. A new agricultural economy of the postwar Poland was founded and organized on large land estates, which were all nationalized, i.e. those estates, which covered something between several dozen to several hundred hectares of arable land. Farms that were taken away from landowners had to be newly developed. There were three main development directions. The first ...
