Niederwedeldorf Castle
The Niederschwedeldorf Castle ( Polish : Pałac w Szalejowie Dolnym ) is located in Szalejów Dolny ( Niederschwedeldorf ) in the powiat Kłodzki ( Glatz district ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. Historically, Niederschwedeldorf belonged to the former County of Glatz .
history
The castle goes back to a farm yard that belonged to the Glaubitz family in the first half of the 14th century . Before 1350, the Niederwedeldorf estate was acquired by the first Archbishop of Prague, Ernst von Pardubitz and his brothers Smil and Wilhelm, who in the same year donated it to the Augustinian Canons of Glatz, founded by Ernst von Pardubitz in 1349, for its economic equipment. During the Hussite Wars , the Niederwedeldorf estate was destroyed in the battle of Altwilmsdorf and rebuilt by the Augustinian monastery around the middle of the 15th century.
In 1597 Pope Clement VIII handed over the Augustinian monastery with all its possessions to the Glatz Jesuit College . Because of the Reformation , the Jesuits had to leave Glatz at the beginning of the Thirty Years War . After their return in 1624, in 1626 all the villages and goods of the former Augustinian monastery, which had been destroyed in 1622 after the battle of the White Mountain , were transferred back to them. In 1624 they built a manor house in Niederschwedeldorf.
In 1742 and finally in 1763 the Niederwedeldorf estate fell to Prussia together with the County of Glatz . The estate was sold together with Niederschwedeldorf to the Prussian Minister of State Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden . After his death in 1815, his sister Wilhelmine inherited the castle, who was married to Otto Friedrich Julius von Münchhausen (1754–1828).
The present palace was built between 1840 and 1844 by Ernst Freiherr von Münchhausen (1793–1865) based on a design by the court architect Ferdinand Martius from Kamenz . From 1872 another wing of the palace was added, and the main building was given a neo-Gothic central risalit and the towers with the characteristic pointed helmets.
After the transfer of Silesia to Poland after the Second World War in 1945, the administration of a communist agricultural production cooperative was housed in the undamaged castle . Restorations in 1970 and 1985 resulted in the preservation of numerous furnishings inside the palace, such as the wood paneling of the dining room and a fireplace from 1574.
Today the castle is privately owned. The surrounding landscape park offers beautiful views of the Reinerzer Weistritz valley ( Bystrzyca Dusznicka ). A path leads to the neo-Gothic mausoleum of the barons of Münchhausen.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 223 .
- Dehio -Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler in Polen Silesia , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich · Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 897–898
Individual evidence
- ^ Albrecht Friedrich von Münchhausen: Gender history of the house of those von Münchhausen from 1740 to the most recent time , p. 52
- ↑ Ferdinand Martius
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Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '37.4 " N , 16 ° 35' 57.2" E