The ruin of a neo-Baroque palace from the early 19th century in Samborowice, extended by successive owners until the end of the 19th century.
The Samborowice Palace is a historic building erected in the early nineteenth century in the village of Samborowice, in Przeworno municipality, in Strzelin County. Today it remains in ruins.
The village of Samborowice was sold in the mid-fifteenth century by Hans and Heinz von Borsnitz to Georg von Pogrell. In 1809 the estate was bought by cavalry captain von Dresky, who built the central part of the present palace. In 1859 the property passed to the von Minckwitz family, who added the western wing. Between 1878 and 1883 the owner was Count Victor von Wartensleben, who built the eastern wing with a tower topped by a spire. After him the estate belonged in turn to officers Schramek, Arthur von Klitzing and Walther Faust, and before 1945 to Georg Hechler.
The building is in the neo-Baroque style and forms part of a larger palace complex, including a park with two ponds connected by a ditch, residential outbuildings, a courtyard, a farmstead and farm buildings. The palace and park were entered in the heritage register: the palace under number 276/1046/WŁ on 30 November 1984, the park under number 275/999/Wł on 29 March 1984.
A cartouche bearing the coat of arms of the Wartensleben family, originally placed in the palace in Samborowice, was later set into the wall of a farm building at the Jagielno Palace, where it was built in by the Ballestrem family.
After 1945 the estate was under the administration of the State Agricultural Farm. The palace fell into ruin, and its central section collapsed in 2006, by then under the administration of the Agricultural Property Agency. The photograph in the Wikipedia entry describing the object is captioned "Palace in ruins".
Be the first! Add a comment.
You need to log in to add a comment.
Log in