Chapel-tomb Orzeszkowa in Zakozel - a masterpiece of neo-Gothic architecture, built in 1849, the distinguished architect Frantisek Yascholdom who built as a palace in Kossovo.

At the beginning of the XIX century in Zakozel grandiose construction begins. There are building a distillery estate, a magnificent split-regular park of 30 hectares. Owner Nicodemus Orzeszkowa hired for the construction of mansions and other buildings of local craftsmen, and wanted to build a shrine to all striking splendor. The idea, this is quite a success.

History tombs associated with the January national-liberation uprising of 1863. Rhode Orzeszkowa supported the uprising. Provided active assistance to the rebels writer Eliza Orzeszkowa. She provided them with food, medicines, food, valuable information. This ancestral chapel while hiding one of the leaders of the rebel Romuald Traugutt. Soon after the uprising was crushed, the leaders were arrested, began a round-up of other participants.

Despite the fact that now the magnificent chapel is in poor condition, its facade miraculously survived two iron shield with the arms of the two branches of the family Orzeszkowa. Inside is a magnificent marble altar. Under the chapel - crypt tomb, where once the ashes of the ancient kind Orzeszkowa. Laced rib once did a set of openwork and easy. Now we can only guess how gorgeous this chapel was in its heyday. If measures are not taken for the conservation and restoration of this monument of architecture, unfortunately, he soon completely destroyed. Already in the chapel hang warning signs of a possible collapse.