A Renaissance manor from 1609 in Przeworno, out of use since 2011, with a surviving Mannerist portal and a sundial on the tower.
Siemisławice Manor is a historic residence in Przeworno, in Strzelin County, listed on the heritage register, standing empty for more than a decade.
On the site of today's manor, a small castle stood in the first half of the 15th century, built for the Piast Duke Frederick I of Legnica. From 1445 the estate belonged to the von Czirn family, probably as a fief. Around 1609 Georg von Czirn rebuilt the former stronghold into a Renaissance manor house - it is this date that is now recorded as the year the building was constructed.
The manor was rebuilt again after 1653, and then in the second half of the 19th century and at the start of the 20th century. Between 1743 and 1945 the estate belonged to a charitable foundation, which leased it out. After 1945 the property was taken over by a state farm (PGR), which set up offices and flats in it, and a renovation was carried out between 1972 and 1974. Since 2011 the manor has not been in use.
The building was constructed of stone and brick on a rectangular plan, is partly built over a basement, has two storeys, and a usable attic under a gable roof. A single-storey annexe was added on the east side. The nine-bay facade is crowned by a central tower with the main entrance, decorated with a two-bay Mannerist portal featuring the heraldic cartouche of the von Czirn and von Zedlitz families. A sundial has survived between the third and fourth storeys of the tower. Inside, some rooms have cross and barrel vaults with lunettes, while the others have flat ceilings. Nearby, the remains of a devastated park have survived, along with the buildings of the former farmstead: a residential outbuilding, a barn, a stable, a cowshed and a granary. The building was listed on the heritage register under number 277/1635 on 12 April 1966.
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