Niederrathen Castle
The Ratno Dolne Castle (German: Schloss Niederrathen ) is located in Ratno Dolne ( Niederrathen ) in the rural municipality of Radków ( Wünschelburg ) in the powiat Kłodzki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.
history
Niederrathen Castle was first mentioned in 1347. The three-storey residential tower with loopholes dates from the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. The four-wing building with arbors in the inner courtyard was built in 1563 by the Reichenbach family . During the Thirty Years' War it was burned down by the Swedes in 1645. Since 1675 it was owned by Daniel Paschasius von Osterberg , who arranged for the palace to be rebuilt and the south wing to be extended. In 1872 it was redesigned in the neo-renaissance style by the then owner Woldemar von Johnston. His son Max von Johnston arranged for the interior to be modernized in 1896. After the Second World War , the buildings were used for other purposes. 1971-1972 parts were redesigned to a children's home. The castle was later left to decay and largely destroyed by fire in 1998.
Terrace gardens were laid out on the south side of the palace at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century, which were converted into a landscape park in 1854.
The building to the west of the palace was formerly used as the court chancellery. It was built in the 3rd quarter of the 17th century and rebuilt in 1872.
literature
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland: Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 800f.
Web links
- Historical and current recordings as well as geographical location
- Photo of the castle ruins (2006)
- Castle ruins (2017)
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 11.4 " N , 16 ° 26 ′ 27.9" E