Kunów Palace

Kunów Palace is a classicist residence from 1840 in Wrocław County, two-storeyed, surrounded by a 4-hectare landscape park. The whole complex - the palace, the park and the former farm buildings - is today private property.

A defensive manor house before the palace

Before the present building was erected in the mid-19th century, a 17th-century defensive manor house surrounded by a moat stood on the same site. The palace was built in 1840 as its successor, in the classicist style.

Architecture

The building has a rectangular plan, a four-pitched roof and a front bay topped with a triangular tympanum, reached by a two-flight staircase with a ramp. The front elevation is decorated with allegorical reliefs depicting Morning and Dusk - copies of works by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

From school to private property

After the Second World War the palace housed a primary school for many years, renovated as late as 1964. Today the building is private property. The palace complex - the manor house, landscape park and farm buildings - has heritage status and is listed in the register, with the park also listed separately.

Surroundings

Kunów lies close to the Ślęża massif and the neighbouring Wieżyca, covered by the Ślęża Landscape Park. Nearby it is also worth visiting the Sobótka-Górka Palace and the Stanisław Dunajewski Ślęża Museum in Sobótka.

Practical information

• Address: ul. Nasławicka 22, Kunów, Sobótka municipality, Wrocław County
• The site is private property - the interior cannot be visited, but the building's exterior can be viewed
• Access via a local road from Sobótka, in the vicinity of the Ślęża massif