Schlawa Castle
Schlawa Castle ( Polish : Pałac w Sławie ) is located in Sława ( Schlawa ), in the powiat Wschowski ( Fraustadt district ) in the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland . Historically, the castle was in the Duchy of Glogau .
history
On the site of the later castle, a permanent house was built in the 14th century , which served as the seat of a ducal court official. Under the Lords of Rechenberg , who had acquired Schlawa in 1458, a previously existing medieval castle was converted into a palace around 1570. After it was destroyed by fire, the Barwitz von Fernemont built a new baroque palace from 1732 to 1735. Between 1886 and 1945 the Moravian line was owned by von Haugwitz .
During the Second World War, a branch of the Reich Security Main Office was housed in the castle . From 1943 onwards, library holdings were politically forbidden. a. from confiscated holdings from Masonic lodges , housed in the castle, which were brought to Posen by the now Polish administration after the end of the war , where they form one of the largest Masonica collections today.
As a result of the Second World War, Schlawa fell to Poland together with Silesia in 1945. Because of the severe war damage in the city of Glogau , its district administration and a grammar school were housed in Schlawa Castle for a short time. From 1957 the castle was converted into a children's home. The palace and palace garden have been privately owned since 2006. The adjacent landscape park is open to the public.
Building
The two-storey castle is emphasized by a pavilion-like central projection. The building is covered with a mansard hipped roof, the main wing is structured by colossal pilasters. The sloping south wing opens to the city. At the baroque entrance gate there was a figure of the Bohemian national saint Johannes Nepomuk .
Castle garden
Around 1750, the garden was designed on a square area between the castle and the lake, surrounded by a wall, and divided into four ornamental gardens by a cross of paths emphasized by a fountain. Today, a meadow with plane trees is reminiscent of the baroque garden, an avenue of lime trees possibly goes back to baroque hedges. The design for the redesign and extension to a landscape park developed by garden architect Eduard Petzold in 1854 was probably only partially implemented. After the count's administration had cleared the lake for water sports, the park was extended to the northeastern shore of the lake in the 1920s.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 154-154 .
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 474
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 848 f.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 36.6 " N , 16 ° 4 ′ 10.9" E