Palace in Szymanów, powiat świdnicki, Neoclassical palace in Szymanów, Poland

The palace in Szymanów is a neoclassical building with a basilical, stepped massing: a taller central block flanked by lower side wings with a mezzanine. A Doric portico with a single row of columns supports a pediment at the front. Above the first-floor windows, an iron plaque bears the coats of arms of Carl Friedrich von Seherr-Thoß and his wife Eleonora Joanna Pertke von Pertkenau. Inside, an oval hall on the ground floor is surrounded by Ionic columns.

Simsdorf belonged with neighbouring Schollwitz to the von Sternberg family at Hohenfriedeberg from 1743, and from 1789 to the Freiherren von Seherr-Thoß. The present palace probably rose after 1825 on the site of a water castle; its design quotes Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Berlin Schauspielhaus, completed in 1821. After 1945 it served as the office of an agricultural production cooperative, was renovated in 1983, and has been privately owned and decaying since the late 1990s.

The palace's design quotes Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Berlin Schauspielhaus, completed in 1821, showing how Prussian architectural models travelled into Silesia. The von Seherr-Thoß family, owners from 1789, had their coats of arms cast in iron above the first-floor windows: Carl Friedrich's on the left, his wife Eleonora Joanna Pertke von Pertkenau's on the right.

The palace has been in private hands since the late 1990s and is falling into disrepair, so there is no regular visiting arrangement; access to the interior should not be assumed. The landscaped park that belongs to the palace complex can be seen from the village road in Szymanów, in the Dobromierz commune of Lower Silesia.

The palace's design quotes Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Berlin Schauspielhaus, completed in 1821. The building is attributed to the von Seherr-Thoß family, who owned Simsdorf from 1789, and it likely rose after 1825. Since the late 1990s it has been privately owned and has fallen into disrepair.