Top 10 Castles around Miedźna

The combination of English Neo-Gothic architecture with Swiss-style architecture produced a remarkable effect. The palace, built of brick and wood, has three stories. The octagonal tower is topped with a pointed dome. The building's form is embellished by numerous bay windows, attics, and turrets. The interior is highly ornate, with intricately carved paneling, stained-glass windows, and paintings making an impression. A spiral staircase in the vestibule attracts attention, while a tiled stove in the Fireplace Room displays hunting trophies. Hunting trophies hang on the walls. In front of the palace stands a historic sculpture of St. Hubert, the patron saint of hunters. After being converted into a hotel, the hunting lodge has regained its former glory. Noma Hotel Residence is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful properties of its kind in Poland. This reputation is all the more justified by the hotel's charming location – it is surrounded by a park and the waters of Lake Paprocańskie. For more information, please visit here... https://www.slaskie.travel/poi/3132/palacyk-mysliwski-w-promnicach

Promnice takes its name from the Promnitz family – Silesian nobility who ruled the Pszczyna estate from the mid-16th to the mid-18th century. After their death, the estate passed into the hands of the Anhalt family. It was a member of this family who built the first hunting lodge in the Pszczyna Forest. However, the time of greatest prosperity came with the takeover of Pszczyna by the Hochberg family, aristocrats considered part of the elite of the German Reich.

The castle in Oświęcim is the royal castle of King Casimir IV Jagiellon.

The Baroque manor house in Grojec was built in the 18th century at the request of the Szembek family, who owned the town. In 1779, Count Ignacy Bobrowski of Bobrówka, Jastrzębiec coat of arms, purchased the Grojec estate from Aleksander Szembek. The estate remained in the hands of the Bobrowski family until 1851. During the Bobrowskis' reign, the Baroque manor house was transformed into a Classicist palace, later rebuilt in the Neo-Gothic style. From 1851 to 1905, Grojec belonged to the Chwalibóg family. In 1905, the estate was purchased by Princess Wilhelmina Maria Radziwiłł. The Radziwiłłs remained owners of the estate until World War II. During the Polish People's Republic, the Grojec estate was divided into parcels, and the palace was transferred to the State Agricultural Farm. Subsequently, the building housed a State Social Welfare Home. Currently, the building serves as the headquarters of the District Care and Treatment Facility. The building can be seen from the outside, from a distance. A landscape park surrounds the palace.

GROJEC – the Radziwiłł Palace, its current appearance a result of a reconstruction carried out in the late 18th century by Count Ignacy Bobrowski, owner of the Grojec estate. On the site of the former Porębski fortified manor house, he erected a grand, two-story residence that served as the residence of Prince Władysław Radziwiłł from the early 20th century until 1939. In one of the chambers, formerly the castle chapel, Calvinist Balcer II Porębski, one of the leaders of the Zebrzydowski Rebellion, is buried. https://www.powiat.oswiecim.pl/zabytki/grojec-palac-radziwillow

The castle in Oświęcim experienced its greatest glory during the reign of Duke Casimir I at the beginning of the 15th century. Its brick tower was described at that time even by Jan Długosz himself in “History of Poland…”. This place was also visited by many distinguished figures over the centuries. Among them was the future Queen of Poland, Bona Sforza d’Aragona, travelling to Krakow from distant Bari for her wedding with King Sigismund I.

Beautiful palace of Hochberg family (owners of Książ / Fuerstenstein Castle)

Castle in Pszczyna - in fact, a palace, a former magnate residence in Pszczyna (German: Pless) in Upper Silesia, which was built on the site of a defensive Gothic castle from the early 15th century[2], probably built on the site of an earlier fortification. The castle was then rebuilt in the 16th century in the Renaissance style, in the 18th century in the Baroque style, and again in the 19th century in the French Baroque style from the time of Louis XIII. In the Middle Ages, it was owned by, among others, the Dukes of Opole-Racibórz, the Dukes of Opava and the Dukes of Cieszyn. In the years 1548–1765 it belonged to the Silesian Promnitz family, from 1765–1847 to the princes of Anhalt-Köthen-Pless, and from 1847 to the princes Hochberg von Pless of Książ. In the years 1870–1876, they rebuilt the castle, as a result of which it acquired its current architectural shape in the neo-baroque style. Source: Wikipedia