A brick palace with 14th-century origins and an eclectic 19th-century rebuilding, where Field Marshal Blücher died, today on the grounds of a hotel and golf resort.
The Krobielowice Palace stands in Lower Silesia, in the Kąty Wrocławskie municipality, on the site of a medieval defensive manor house from the 14th century. Its current form is owed to a rebuilding of 1699-1704, commissioned by Karol Keller, abbot of the Krzeszów monastery, and a further rebuilding of 1873-1878, which gave it its present, eclectic appearance. The building is made of brick and is listed in the register of immovable monuments of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship under the function "castle".
The estate in Krobielowice belonged from 1417 to the estates of the Cistercian monastery, and in 1810, as part of the Prussian secularisation, it was confiscated. Four years later the Prussian king granted it to Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher in recognition of his victories over Napoleon's forces. It was in this palace that Blücher died on 12 September 1819. His mausoleum stands a kilometre away and is a separate site - described separately as the Mausoleum of Gebhard von Blücher.
In 1873-1878 three corner towers with brick spires were added to the palace, along with a southern terrace and a veranda with arcades. This set of elements, combining Baroque forms with eclectic additions, has survived to this day and determines the building's present appearance. The entry in the register of monuments carries the numbers 1794 of 20 August 1966 and A/3824/1794 of 20 September 2010.
After the Second World War the estate was nationalised. In the following decades it passed into private hands - the buyer was a citizen of New Zealand, a descendant of the English branch of the Blücher family. Today a hotel and golf resort operates on the grounds of the former residence, and the surrounding park has been turned into a golf course. Because of this use, the site is not a publicly accessible monument open for free visiting - entering the grounds involves using the facility operating there.
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