Kreisau Castle
Kreisau Castle ( Polish : Pałac w Krzyżowej ) is a castle in Krzyżowa (German Kreisau ) in the rural municipality Świdnica in the Powiat Świdnicki (Lower Silesia) ( Schweidnitz District ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . The castle became known as the meeting point of the Kreisau Circle resistance group .
history
The castle was built around 1720 on behalf of Sigismund von Zedlitz and Leipe , possibly based on a design by the Schweidnitz master builder Felix Anton Hammerschmidt. After 1772 the von Dresky bought the castle, from whom Helmuth von Moltke bought it in 1867 . He had the castle rebuilt by Heinrich Gödeking. In 1891 the property went to his nephew Wilhelm von Moltke, the grandfather of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke . From 1940, members of the "Kreisau Circle" resistance group met in the castle, most of whom were executed in the spring of 1945.
After the transition of Silesia to Poland as a result of the Second World War, the castle was nationalized in 1945. After that it served as the administrative headquarters of the state- owned farm , but became increasingly neglected. As early as the 1970s, members of the Breslau “Club of Catholic Intelligence” made contact with Freya von Moltke in order to set up a memorial to the “Kreisau Circle” in the castle.
In December 1989, a place of reconciliation - Fair , attended among others, Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki took part and decided to establish the "Kreisau Foundation for European Understanding". The castle was then extensively restored. Several representative rooms have been faithfully restored, as has the stairwell, in which wall paintings depict scenes from Prussian history. One of the pictures shows the sacking of Lübeck by the Napoleonic Army in 1806, the second the invasion of Paris by the German army during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.
In spring 1998 the international youth meeting place was opened here.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, ISBN 978-3-87057-336-2 , p. 277 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kreisau Foundation. In: www.krzyzowa.org.pl. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 42.2 ″ N , 16 ° 32 ′ 5 ″ E