Krieblowitz Castle
The manor house Krieblowitz Castle ( Pałac Krobielowice ) is located about 20 km southwest of Wroclaw in the village of the same name in the municipality of Kąty Wrocławskie ( Kanth ) in the powiat Wrocławski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. The current building was built in the 16th to 18th centuries.
history
prehistory
The village of Krieblowitz was first mentioned in 1321. A fixed tower is documented there for the year 1349. From 1417 until the secularization in 1810 Krieblowitz belonged to the St. Vincent monastery in Breslau. The two-storey castle in the Renaissance style was built in 1570–1580. At that time it only consisted of the northeast wing. In the years 1702 to 1704 it was rebuilt and expanded into a four-wing complex in the Baroque style under Abbot Keller . At that time the castle was the seat of the estate administration of the Premonstratensian of the St. Vincent's .
Property of the Blücher family
In 1814, after the secularization of the monasteries and ecclesiastical goods in Prussia, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the castle and the village of Krieblowitz as well as eleven other goods from spiritual property to Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , Prince of Wahlstatt , for his services in the Wars of Liberation . He spent the last years of his life here, but died in 1819. His body was first buried in the neighboring Catholic Church of Woigwitz ( Wojtkowice in Polish since 1945 ). According to his wishes, a family crypt was built in 1820 northwest of the castle on the Lindenhöhe and Blücher's body was transferred there. At the request of the king, the Blücher mausoleum was built next to the family crypt in the years 1846–1853 based on a design by the Berlin architect Johann Heinrich Strack . The tower-like building, which rests on a square base, is about ten meters high. Gabbro , which was extracted from the Zobten mountain , was used as building material . The medallion in the crown of the mausoleum contains a relief bust of Blucher. It is made of marble and was created by the Berlin sculptor Heinrich Berges .
Under the descendants of Blücher, the palace was rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style in 1878 and expanded to include three corner towers and other additions. Garden terraces were created at the same time. During conservation work in 1938–39, one of the corner towers was removed.
To the northeast of the castle is a sandstone gate building. There is a renaissance portal from the 16th century, here in 1878 to translocate was.
The mausoleum and the family crypt are on the road to Kanth (Kąty Wrocławskie).
Since 1945
The mausoleum and family crypt have been empty since the looting by the Red Army on February 25, 1945. The castle remained in the possession of the von Blücher family until the end of the Second World War in 1945. After the transition to Poland, it was renamed “Pałac w Krobielowicach”. Then apartments were built here for the workers of the agricultural production cooperative.
The castle, which was robbed and dilapidated after 1945, was bought back in the 1990s by a descendant of Blücher, restored in style and now serves as a hotel.
literature
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 253f.
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 490.
- Helmut Sieber : Castles in Silesia. Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1971, pp. 32–33.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 25 " N , 16 ° 47 ′ 54.4" E