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Explore #175: Pałac w Krowiarkach aka Palac K, Poland – May 2016

April 24, 2017

Palaces, Castles & Mansions, Poland, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #15 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ The fifth day of our German-Polish odyssey began with another permission visit to a once-grand palace whose future now seems precarious. History (translated and rewritten from here and here). In 1678 a wooden castle was erected by the Beess family in the village of Krowiarki, with ownership passing to Leopold Paczyński in 1690 and Graf Strachwitz in 1800. In 1826 Ernest Joachim Strachwitz built a new brick palace on the site, and…

Explore #174: Palac Bożków, Poland – May 2016

Explore #14 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ The third and final explore of day four was a permission visit of this stunning crumbling palace in Southern Poland. History (translated and rewritten from wiki and here.) The estate in the village of Bożków was first established in around 1520 by the von Raueck family. After the Czech-Palatinate war the estate was confiscated and given to the emperor’s physician Caspar Jäschke von Eisenhut. It later passed to the Jesuits, who built…