Palace in Brzezinka, Manor palace in Brzezinka, Poland.
The Palace in Brzezinka is a symmetrical manor house featuring decorated facades and early 18th-century architectural elements. The structure displays multiple stories, well-proportioned windows, and design details characteristic of that period.
Moritz von Kottulinsky acquired Briese in 1648 and built an early Baroque palace on the site of an earlier residence; Duke Sylvius I Nimrod of Württemberg-Oels died during its consecration. In 1718 the estate became part of a Kospoth majorat, and Carl Christian von Kospoth commissioned a new palace around 1725, completed in 1740 under Anna Sophie von Erbach-Fürstenau and Balthasar Friedrich von Promnitz. After 1945 it passed to a state farm and was later looted, with wooden ceilings, stucco and marble floors destroyed.
The estate's name Briese passed into Polish as Brzezinka. The park held sculptures and vases that were moved in 1950 to the Wilanów palace garden in Warsaw, where they remain. Karl August von Kospoth laid out a pheasantry park between Brzezinka and Miodary.
The palace stands in Brzezinka, Oleśnica commune, on the road axis marked by an avenue of old trees; the neglected 5-hectare English park lies behind it. The building is ruined and its interiors were looted, so it can only be viewed from outside. The estate also contains a 1731 administrator's house and a mid-18th-century inspector's house, now a granary.
The garden portal carries a cartouche with the coats of arms of von Maltzan and his wife Anna von Erbach, and above the balcony door another bears the von Kospoth arms. Around 1950, eighteen sculptures from the palace park were moved to the Wilanów garden in Warsaw.
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