Matzdorf Castle (Lower Silesia)
The Matzdorf Castle ( Polish : Pałac w Maciejowcu ) is located in Maciejowiec in the rural municipality of Lubomierz ( Liebenthal ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.
history
The castle was built on behalf of Johann Dolan between 1834 and 1838 in the classicism style. After the owners Maximilian von Lüttichau and Anton L'Estocq , Emma von Kramsta acquired the castle in 1913 and had it extended by two side wings. After her son was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , the Nazi state confiscated the palace. After that it was first used as a hospital , then as the residence of the Japanese ambassador Ōshima Hiroshi .
The large landscaped garden which surrounds the castle and which slopes south in terraces into the Bobertal was created by the Muskau garden inspector Rehder from 1835 to 1838 according to a design by the garden architect Eduard Petzold . In 1942 Renata Kracker von Schwarzenfeld (* 1913), wife of the Hitler assassin Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff, was buried in the mausoleum .
As a result of World War II, Matzdorf and most of Silesia fell to Poland in 1945. Subsequently, the Matzdorf / Maciejów Castle was temporarily used by the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business . On the edge of the meadow in front of the castle, there are still special trees, including a turkey, a copper beech and a tulip tree.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 280 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 23.4 " N , 15 ° 37 ′ 22" E