Gross Wartenberg Castle
Groß-Wartenberg Castle was a castle in the Polish city of Syców .
history
A lordly castle was built on the site in the 12th century to secure the trade route from Breslau to Thorn . The first castellan recorded was Albert von Schmollen. From 1489 the place was part of a free class rule . The von Haugwitz family owned the property until 1517, and the von Maltzan family from 1517 to 1571 . After interim ownership by von Braun, Abraham II . Burgrave of Dohna owned the property. From 1594 to 1608 he had a baroque palace built near the castle . After severe fire destruction, a new baroque palace was built in 1721, which has been handed down in a pen drawing by Friedrich Bernhard Werner .
In 1734 Ernst Johann Reichsgraf von Biron acquired the rule. In 1813 a fire destroyed the castle. From 1853, Calixt had Prince Biron built a neo-Gothic castle using the ruins . The architect Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Wolff based himself on the Sibyllenort Castle, which he also designed . The medieval castle was demolished in 1854.
After the city was taken by the Red Army , the castle was looted and set on fire. Although the new Polish administration planned to rebuild it, the castle was demolished between 1951 and 1958. Only a few of the buildings of the dominion and the castle church built by Carl Gotthard Langhans in 1785 , which today serves the Protestant community, have survived.
To the south of the former castle, the landscape park , laid out in 1813, has been preserved and a renovated mausoleum of the Biron of Courland .
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015.
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '22.3 " N , 17 ° 43' 8.3" E