Top 7 Castles around gmina gmina Wschowa

The palace on the Żuchłowo estate was built around 1791 for Major von Prittwitz. Around 1894, the estate passed into the hands of the von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf families, who owned it until the end of World War II. At their initiative, the palace was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century, gaining its current, neo-Renaissance appearance. After World War II, the building was used by the local State Agricultural Farm (PGR) and then housed a primary school (until 1992). After the school left, the palace changed owners and gradually fell into disrepair.

On the site of the palace, there already existed a defensive Renaissance castle from the turn of the 16th/17th century, likely built by Stanisław Wilkowski. In 1776, Samuel Mielęcki rebuilt it into a Baroque palace – a brick, two-story, rectangular-shaped structure with cylindrical towers at the front. Currently, it is privately owned and falls into increasing disrepair.

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 palace was built in the late 19th century in the neo-Baroque style, with a richly decorated facade covered with a hipped roof.

The palace is fenced, inaccessible. You can only see what you can see from the street. Behind the palace there is a wild palace park.

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.

The earlier stronghold was destroyed in 1343 by the troops of Casimir the Great, and a brick castle was built in its place, which belonged to the royal estate. The first mentions of Wschowa Castle come from the 14th century. After the partitions, the castle was largely destroyed. At the beginning of the 19th century, a prison was established on the castle's foundations. In the post-war years, until 1999, a clothing factory operated in the building. In 2000, the building was adapted into a hotel and restaurant called "Zamek Królewski".