Goschütz Castle
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The ruins of Goschütz Castle ( Polish Pałac w Goszczu ) are located in the village of the same name Goszcz (German Goschütz ) in the urban and rural community of Twardogóra ( Festenberg ) in the powiat Oleśnicki ( Oels district ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . The castle was considered one of the most beautiful baroque castle complexes in Silesia .
history
The village is first mentioned as Goztech 1155. In the course of the German settlement, the place was divided into a church-administered northern and a secular southern part, whose first lords were the Counts of Wiesenburg. Thereafter, both districts were owned by the von Borschnitz, who sold the property in 1605 to Abraham II Burgrave von Dohna. In 1665 the property went to Freiherr Gottfried von Heister, in 1693 to Anna Sophia von Württemberg-Oels, but did not become part of the Principality of Oels .
In 1727 Heinrich I. Leopold Freiherr von Reichenbach acquired the status of Güschütz. After the First Silesian War in 1742, Goschütz fell to Prussia, along with most of Silesia .
A medieval manor was probably located on an island in the lake. The first castle was probably built on the site of today's castle in the first half of the 17th century. A new building of the castle in 1730 burned down in 1749. Today's palace was built in 1755 according to plans by Karl Martin Frantz as a four-wing complex based on the Palladian model . The castle combines stylistic elements of the Prussian Rococo and the Bohemian Baroque.
The castle, modernized from 1886 to 1888, burned down in December 1947 and has been in ruins ever since .
Building
The complex is characterized by a cour d'honneur measuring 80 × 60 meters , on which cavalier houses and farm buildings extend on both sides to the east. This is followed by a two-storey corps de logis with an arbor in front of it , connected to the commercial buildings by articulated structures . On the back of the castle, a covered corridor led to the orangery , which was demolished in 1965, and to the ruinous castle church.
literature
- Arne Franke (ed.): Brief cultural history of the Silesian castles , volume 1. Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, pp. 131–133
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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 50 " N , 17 ° 28 ′ 38" E