Muhrau Castle
The Muhrau Castle ( Polish Pałac w Morawie ) in Morawa (German Muhrau ) belongs to the rural community Strzegom ( Striegau ), Powiat Świdnicki (Lower Silesia) ( Schweidnitz District ), Lower Silesian Voivodeship , Poland.
history
In 1362, Benedictine nuns from Striegau acquired the Muhrauer Vorwerk and had a Propsteig building built. After the secularization in 1810 and changing owners, Eduard Theodor von Kramsta bought it in 1864 . He arranged for a new building on the site of the Propsteigebuilding in a style mixture of classical and neo-Renaissance elements. The granite ashlar basement, the square tower and the representative portico are remarkable .
From 1875 the castle was owned by Marie von Kramsta . In 1916 she gave it to her great-nephew Hans Christoph von Wietersheim -Kramsta (1899–1978). During the Second World War , looted art a . a. stored from the Warsaw Royal Castle and the Krakow Wawel .
After the transition to Poland in 1945, the castle served as a training center of civil defense, the dominion was approved by the state-owned agricultural cooperative managed. In 1992 the daughter of the last landowner returned and had the castle restored. I.a. there is currently a kindergarten in the castle.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 329 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 57.3 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 44.9" E