Maiwaldau Castle
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Maiwaldau Castle was considered one of the most beautiful baroque castles in the Hirschberg Valley . It was in Maiwaldau, today Maciejowa , a district of Jelenia Góra , on the road to Bolków ( Bolkenhain ) in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia .
history
Around the year 1200 Wittich von Czirn is named as the owner of the place. With a document from 1319 Albertus Bavarus sold the Maiwaldau estate together to the church patronage and the Scholtisei to Otto von Zedlitz . The process was notarized by the Schweidnitz Duke Heinrich I.
The castle goes back to a medieval building that was built and expanded under von Nimptsch and von Zedlitz. The von Karwath had the building converted into an early baroque palace in 1686 . From 1763 to 1765 Maiwaldau was owned by Anton Franz von Karwath, from whom it was sold to the Princess Sapieha. She bequeathed it to Freiherr von Lilienhoff, who (?) Lilienhoff-Zwowitzky followed. In 1790 it came to the Lords of Schaffgotsch , who sold it in 1851 to Udo von Alvensleben, from whom it was bought in 1858 to Friedrich August Kuhn. Duke Elimar von Oldenburg followed in 1862, the manor owner Walter in 1872 and Emil Becker only a few months later. He had the building completely renovated.
At the end of the 1920s, the castle belonged to a beverage dealer. Used by the Reichspost from 1943 onwards, it served as an emergency shelter for bomb victims.
Current condition
After the war, the castle fell into disrepair and was finally demolished in 1965. Only a few remains of the wall remind of the building. The castle was located on Dorfstrasse in the direction of Bolkenhain, just behind the parish church. Here you can recognize the overgrown castle park by its old trees, an avenue of chestnut trees, an observation tower and the Becker mausoleum.
literature
- Arne Franke: The Silesian Elysium: Castles, palaces, mansions and parks in the Hirschberg Valley , German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe, 2008, page (?)