Pawłowice Park, Palace and Folwark in Wrocław, Renaissance palace complex in Wrocław, Poland
Pałac Kornów w Pawłowicach is a two-storey palace built on a rectangular plan, one of the latest examples of Northern Renaissance style in Wrocław. It has a high mansard roof with dormers, a front projection topped by a gable with a cartouche of the coats of arms of Heinrich von Korn and Helena von Eichborn, and a two-storey tower on the right. The palace is part of a palace-farm complex with a 7.2 ha English-style park centred on an artificial pond.
The estate belonged to the Premonstratensian monastery of St. Vincent until secularisation in 1810. Publisher Heinrich von Korn bought it in 1886 and had the present palace built in 1891–1895 to a design attributed to August Orth, in northern Renaissance style. From 1892 it passed to his daughter Marie von Schweinichen, who added a second wing and a connecting passage.
The Korn family coat of arms of Heinrich von Korn and Helena von Eichborn still sits on the fronton. After 1892 Maria von Korn and Konstantin von Schweinichen had rooms painted by Joseph Langer with scenes of Schweinhaus Castle. The arboretum, restored and opened in 2011, covers 78.5 ha and holds over 200 species of trees and shrubs.
The palace and outbuildings house a continuing education centre, conference centre, hotel and restaurant, so the complex is in active institutional use. The 7.2 ha English-style park around the palace, with its 0.4 ha pond, stone bridge and gloriette, is separate from the 78.5 ha arboretum, which was restored and opened to visitors in 2011.
The palace's front gable carries a cartouche with the coats of arms of Heinrich von Korn and his wife Helena von Eichborn, still visible above the entrance. Inside, the painter Joseph Langer decorated rooms with depictions of Schweinhaus Castle after the estate passed to their daughter Marie von Schweinichen in 1892.
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