Easy hikes and walks around Kożuchów

Newly designed administrative building. There is an observation tower on the building.

The church dates from the 13th century. It is a Roman Catholic church.

A place with great historical potential. Secured palace ruins, orangery, large park complex with rare trees and small architecture.

The ruins of the palace in Zatonie. The external and internal walls have been preserved. Only the roof and ceilings are missing. The ruins are tidy and the rooms are described. In front of the palace there is a fountain with a reconstruction of the Boy with a Swan sculpture, and next to it in the orangery there is a restaurant. The whole is surrounded by a very large park. It is a very nicely developed place, definitely worth recommending.

An openwork gazebo built on an artificially placed mound. A nice view of the main axis of the park with the palace at its end.

According to legend, the founder of the church was Bolesław Krzywousty. The appearance of the oldest temple is unknown. Historical sources from 1273 refer to a building erected around the middle of the 13th century. It was a stone three-nave building, which, however, burned down in 1339. A new temple was built in the years 1340-1369. At that time, the interior was covered with a cross-ribbed vault, and the body was covered with a gable roof. Further expansion was made in the 15th century, adding a chapel, sacristy and a side nave by the presbytery. After another fire in 1554, the walls of the presbytery were raised, leveling them with the walls of the naves, and the roofs were replaced with three parallel ones covering the individual naves. In 1725, the Baroque Olive Chapel was built. In 1764, the roof burned down. During the reconstruction, the tower received a new eight-pitched spire.

The town hall in Kożuchów was built in 1489. It was destroyed in fires several times and then rebuilt. At the end of World War II, the town hall was seriously damaged, and then rebuilt in the years 1963-1966, combining modern architecture with relics of the previous building that survived the war damage. This is how the current nightmare was created.

Artificially built mounds in landscape parks enriched the terrain, made it more attractive and created viewpoints. This role is also played by the mound in the Zatoński park. There is a spiral path leading to its top. The culmination of the hill is a wooden gazebo built on a polygon plan, with a superstructure in the form of a lantern. It was a place of meetings and rest called the Rose Temple or Rose Gazebo. From here you can admire the longest viewing axis in the park, which closes the view of the palace. At the foot of the mound there is an artificial cave, built of field stone. It was supposed to add charm and mystery to this place. In the past, you could go down the stone stairs from the gazebo to a small terrace above the grotto. A dozen or so meters away was the smallest of the three park fountains. The basin had the shape of a kidney, and above it there was a sculpture of a Calydonian boar (currently placed at Mały Staw). It is a copy of an ancient sculpture, the original of which can be admired in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The whole composition was once complemented by flower beds made of blue glass. Source: Information board