Bliż Manor

The Bliż Manor is a former estate residence in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, surrounded by a park and the remains of the old estate farm buildings. The estate, known as Blis, was first mentioned as early as 1245, and the present manor house was built, according to Wikidata, in 1801.

From episcopal estate to the von Johnston family residence

Until 1810 the estate belonged to the Bishopric of Wrocław; after secularisation it passed into the ownership of the Prussian state. Towards the end of the 19th century the estate came into the hands of the von Johnston family, who held it until 1945.

Flats today, not a museum

After the war the estate was taken over by the Polish state, and the manor house was converted into a multi-family residential building, a function it still serves today. The building is not entered in the heritage register, but it does appear in the municipal register of monuments as part of a manor-and-farmstead complex comprising the manor house, farm buildings, a cowshed and a park. Of the farm buildings, the barn survives as a ruin, and the landscape park has survived only in part. The building can only be viewed from the outside, as people live inside.

Other manor houses nearby

Within a few kilometres also stand the Krzyżowice Palace and the Bielany Wrocławskie Manor House, both sharing a similar manor-and-farmstead history typical of this area.

Practical information

• Location: the village of Bliż, in the Baranowice sołectwo, Wrocław County.
• Accessibility: a residential building, viewed only from the outside, with no access inside.
• Getting there: by car, parking is possible in the courtyard of the former farmstead.