Lobris Castle
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Lobris Palace ( Polish : Pałac w Luboradzu ) is a palace in Luboradz ( Lobris ) in the rural municipality of Mściwojów ( Profen ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. The castle was one of the most outstanding residences in Silesia .
history
"Loboradz" was first mentioned around the year 1300. Between 1396 and 1412 it belonged to Nikolaus von Sachenkirch, from 1480 to von Bock . Their renaissance epitaphs can be found in the village church donated by Hans von Bock in 1581. Initially there was a fortified complex in Lobris . It was converted into a two- wing Renaissance complex around 1560 , the west and north wings of which have been preserved in the current complex. Remnants of the sgraffito plaster , paintings and door frames have been preserved from this time .
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In the first half of the 17th century, Governor Hans von Starhemberg acquired Castle and Gut Lobris, who sold it to Otto von Nostitz-Rokitnitz (1608–1664) in 1654 . This was the privy councilor of Emperor Ferdinand III. and governor of the duchies of Breslau and Schweidnitz-Jauer . His son Christoph Wenzel von Nostitz-Rokitnitz expanded the castle from 1681–1686 by the builder Antonio Domenico Rossi. A garden pavilion was built on the north side and the palace chapel on the east side. In an adjoining room there was a valuable picture gallery . a. the Andromeda by Michael Willmann was located. He also designed a cycle for the palace chapel, which is now in the Wroclaw National Museum. The cavalier's house in front of the southern wing of the palace with a three-axis central projection housed the library with numerous bibliophile treasures. On the upper floor of the west wing there is now an allegorical depiction of Mars, the god of war, originally installed in the library . One of the most important rooms is the ancestral hall attached to the west wing, which takes up the entire upper floor. In the middle field, the ruling house of the Habsburgs is glorified, and 53 painted busts with members of the Nostitz family are shown in oval fields. Above the chimney opposite the entrance is a portrait of the founder Christoph Wenzel.
Around 1740 the exterior facades were redesigned and the baroque balustrades were created between the castle and the library building. These works are attributed to the Jauer- born architect Christoph Hackner . After the First Silesian War in 1742 Lobris fell together with Silesia to Prussia.
The castle remained in the possession of the Nostitz family until 1890. At that time Ernestine, a daughter of Count Joseph von Nostitz-Rieneck, married Count Engelhard Dietrich von Wolkenstein-Trostburg . Since the couple rarely stayed at Lobris, the collections were neglected. In 1895 the rich library with over 11,000 books was closed and most of the books were auctioned in Munich. The paintings of the empty library halls were in the upper floor of the west wing in 1938 translocated .
The ensemble remained unscathed during World War II . After the war and the transition to Poland in 1945, the castle was looted and the remaining collections were carried away. In 1959 the palace complex was placed under monument protection. Apartments were set up in the castle, the representative rooms remained unused. Although security measures were taken in the 1970s and 1980s, considerable damage is visible today. Only fragments of sculptures and some parapet elements have survived in the palace gardens.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015.
- Dehio-Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler in Polen, Silesia , Munich · Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 580 f.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 27.1 ″ N , 16 ° 17 ′ 25.1 ″ E