Mysłakowice Castle, Neoclassical palace in Mysłakowice, Poland.
Mysłakowice Castle is a palace in Mysłakowice whose present form comes from the Tudor Gothic rebuilding carried out from 1840 for King Frederick William IV to designs by Friedrich August Stüler. Smooth rendered elevations are crowned by a crenellated parapet with corner turrets, and an octagonal tower stands on the west side. The single-storey Great Dining Hall occupies a separate wing to the south-west.
Prussian field marshal August von Gneisenau owned the property until 1831, when King Frederick William III acquired it. The king then commissioned architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel to renovate the complex.
The palace's present Tudor Gothic look comes from Frederick William IV, who from 1840 had his ideas realised by Friedrich August Stüler: a tower, a separate wing for the great dining hall, and new roofs and façades. The ballroom was built to resemble a Mississippi paddle steamer, with its flat roof as the deck, two chimneys at the front and side entrances as paddle wheels.
The palace sits roughly seven kilometers southeast of Jelenia Góra near the Tyrolean Houses district. Visitors can easily access hiking trails into the Karkonosze Mountains from this location.
The ballroom was designed to resemble a Mississippi river steamboat: its flat roof forms the deck, two chimneys stand at the front of the terrace, the side entrances are the paddle wheels, and the balconies above the terrace are the captain's bridge.
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