Attractions and Places To See around gmina gmina Wschowa - Top 20

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In the place of the present palace there was already a castle of the Dukes of Głogów, mentioned since 1468, passed on to the von Rechenberg family. At the end of the 16th century, Hans von Rechenberg rebuilt it in the Renaissance style. In the mid-17th century, the estate passed into the hands of the Barwitz family (von Fernemont). After a great fire in 1721, the former castle was rebuilt in the years 1732–1735 as a two-storey Baroque residence, preserving part of the older structure. The palace served as the residence and archive of the Reich Main Security Office, as well as Heinrich Himmler; a unique collection of books on Freemasonry and witch trials was gathered here. After the war, it was transformed into, among other things, a Children's Home (1957–2006); previously it housed the tax office, ZHP, OSP and a playhouse.

The first mentions of St. Michael's Church in Wyszanów date back to 1376. It was a Gothic, single-nave church, built of field stone and brick, with a square tower. During or immediately after the Thirty Years' War, the church was destroyed and never rebuilt. There are hypotheses that Swedish troops could have been responsible for the destruction.

In 1982, at the initiative of Edmund Apolinarski, the then director of the breeding center, a decision was made to build a monument commemorating the bull Ilon. The author of the concrete monument is Tomasz Bończa-Ozdowski. The monument was erected in the place where a column commemorating the Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had previously stood, which was dismantled in the 1960s. Ilon was a bull (breeding bull) of the Holstein-Friesian breed. His mother was brought from the United States to the breeding center in Osowa Sienia in the 1970s. The bull Ilon was born in Osowa Sienia and became the first stud of this breed in Poland. Thanks to his extraordinary productivity, the cattle breeding in Osowa Sień, managed by the State Agricultural Farm, grew stronger, which was a financial success and a symbol of high production of breeding material. Ilon became a real "star of the PRL".

The first town hall was built in the Middle Ages, but its contemporary shape is due to repeated reconstructions. The oldest preserved fragment is the so-called "Gothic hall" from 1556 - with a net vault over the north-eastern part of the ground floor. Wschowa experienced numerous fires, which significantly damaged the town hall. As a result of these events, it was rebuilt several times, while maintaining Gothic elements and rebuilding to remove the damage. In the years 1860-1862, the town hall was rebuilt with elements of "English neo-Gothic", adding a characteristic clock tower and an ornamental roof. The representative façade contains the city's coat of arms, and the shape emphasizes the importance of the town hall as a municipal institution and symbol of power.

The first mention of the town hall in Wschowa dates back to 1435, but it took on its current appearance during the reconstruction in the years 1860–1870. It was given an eclectic shape at that time. In the north-eastern corner of the town hall, a hall covered with an elaborate net vault from the first half of the 16th century (Gothic hall) has been preserved on the ground floor. The former coat of arms of the city is located on the pediment of the town hall. It depicts the scene of the coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Below it is a double Jagiellonian cross with two rings.

In this palace, the Reich Security Main Office created a residence for the head of the SS and Minister of the Interior, Heinrich Himmler. Inspired by Arthurian legends, he dreamed of the SS becoming an order of the "new religion" which he considered Nazism.

Baroque palace built in the 1730s on the foundations of the old Rechenberg castle. The castle was first mentioned in 1468. During World War II, the Germans gathered a unique collection of Masonic books in the palace, which is currently located in the University Library in Poznań. In the years 1957-2006, the palace functioned as an Orphanage. Today, it is abandoned and fenced. No sightseeing.