Dambrau Castle
The Dambrau Castle is a castle in Upper Silesia City Dabrowa (German Dambrau ) in Opole County (District Opole) .
history
Dambrau Castle is a late Renaissance building that was built under the then landlord Joachim Graf von Tschentschau-Mettich . Construction of the palace began on July 7, 1615 and was completed in 1617. The gate tower with an onion helmet comes from this time. In the following centuries the castle was rebuilt several times. The largest took place between 1894 and 1897 under Prince Hans Heinrich XI. from Hochberg . The four-wing complex of the castle was rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style and received a gable and a round tower on the northwest corner.
In 1905, the later Swiss writer Robert Walser lived in the castle , who practiced the service he had learned at a Berlin school here.
In 1921 the castle became the property of Count Hermann zu Solms-Baruth (1888–1961). He was a son-in-law of Prince Hans-Heinrich IV von Hochberg. His fourth son Wilhelm Bolko Emanuel von Hochberg (1886–1934) died in 1934 in Dambrau Castle. At the beginning of the Second World War the castle was uninhabited. A school was set up in the castle during the war. In the farm buildings were forced laborers and prisoners of war employed and in 1944 set up a military hospital. As a result of the Second World War, Dambrau Castle and most of Silesia fell to Poland in 1945. After that, a wing of the castle served as a hospital for a short time.
Until 1975 the castle housed several facilities, including an agricultural school and a training center for state police officers. In 1975 the castle became the property of the Opole University of Education, the predecessor of today's Opole University . Due to a lack of financial resources, renovation measures were not carried out on the building, so that it is in a poor structural condition to this day.
The castle and park are now owned by the University of Opole. In the summer of 2016, funds were guaranteed for a renovation. In the future, the building should be available again for university purposes.
Park
The park area belonging to the palace covers an area of 2.2 hectares.
Web links
- History of the Dambrau Castle (Polish)
- List of Polish castles (Polish)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 47.3 " N , 17 ° 44 ′ 50.9" E