Gorkau Castle
Gorkau Castle ( Zamek Górka in Polish ) is an ensemble of buildings in Sobótka (German Zobten am Berge ) in the Wrocławski powiat ( Wroclaw district ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.
Around 1130 a monastery was donated by the Breslau castellan Peter Wlast , in which Augustinian canons from Arrouaise settled, but in 1149 they moved to the St. Vincent monastery in Wroclaw. Gorkau was then the seat of a provost's office . In the 16th century, a residential building was added to the monastery church of St. Maria Himmelfahrt to the west. In the years 1428 and 1435 to 1589 the ensemble was expanded to include farm buildings. Gorkau remained the summer residence of the Wroclaw bishops until secularization . Then Gorkau was acquired by Ernst von Lüttwitz . After 1885 the ensemble was owned by Eugen von Kulmiz, who converted the building according to plans by Wilhelm Rhenius in the neo-Renaissance style .
After the transition to Poland in 1945, the building was used as a holiday home, currently it is used as a hotel. The hall church , in which remarkable ceiling paintings were discovered and in which an epitaph of the provost Valentin Aeschius, probably designed by Gerard Hendrick , is being restored.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 222 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 14.1 ″ N , 16 ° 42 ′ 28.6 ″ E