Palace in Wojcieszów Dolny, 16th-century palace in Wojcieszów Dolny, Poland
The Palace in Wojcieszów Dolny is a stone-and-brick building on a five-sided plan close to a square, with two storeys over vaulted cellars and a hipped roof with ornamental gables and dormers. Its seven-axis west facade centres on a square tower whose pointed-arch portal carries the coats of arms of the von Zieten (left) and von Zedlitz und Neukirch (right) families. The interior is laid out in three ranges, with flat ceilings and some stucco decoration.
A Renaissance manor was built on this site around 1569. Between 1858 and 1869 and again in 1891–1892 the building was rebuilt and enlarged in the German Neo-Renaissance style. A 1930 fire damaged part of the upper floor and the tower. After 1945 it housed PGR offices, then a primary school until 2001; it was sold to a private owner in 2004.
The palace stands in the centre of the Kaczawa Mountains, and the village of Wojcieszów was already recorded before 1300. The heraldic cartouches flanking the pointed-arch portal name two Silesian families: von Zieten on the left and von Zedlitz und Neukirch on the right. After 1945 the interiors housed a state farm office and later a primary school until 2001.
The palace is privately owned and not open to visitors; its west facade, with the seven-axis front and the square central tower, can be seen from the public road through the surrounding fence. The entrance portal carries two heraldic cartouches, von Zieten on the left and von Zedlitz und Neukirch on the right. The 3.92-hectare park lies within the same enclosure.
The west facade has seven axes and a square tower set in the middle, where the main entrance sits in a pointed-arch portal. On either side of the arch are heraldic cartouches of the von Zieten family (left) and the von Zedlitz und Neukirch family (right).
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