Gogołów Palace

Gogołów Palace stands in a small village in the Świdnica municipality, a few kilometres from the city. The building has retained the original shape of the former residence, but today it is a ruin - renovations carried out on it for years have not changed its poor technical condition.

From hunting lodge to palace

The oldest part of the building is a Renaissance hunting lodge of the Dukes of Świdnica from the 16th century, known in German as Schloss Goglau. The facade retains coats of arms indicating later owners - Jan Krzysztof Gottlob von Hochberg and his wife Henrietta Charlotte Euphrosyne von Lutwitz, with the date 1827.

Traces of former decoration

Despite its poor technical condition, the palace has retained numerous architectural elements, including fragments of sgraffito wall decoration dating from earlier centuries.

A ruin listed in the heritage register

The palace, together with its park layout, is listed in the heritage register under number A/4170/747/WŁ, registered on 8 November 1980. The former palace complex also includes a 19th-century landscape park, of which only remnants survive today.

Practical information

• The palace is located in the village of Gogołów, in the Świdnica municipality, in Świdnica County.
• The building is a ruin and a private, inaccessible property - there is no organised visiting of the interiors here.
• The nearest major attractions are Świdnica with the Church of Peace and the Cathedral of St Stanislaus and St Wenceslaus, and nearby stands a similar, partly preserved palace in Gruszów.