Top 5 Castles around Kobiór

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.

former hunting lodge of the Hochberg family, designed by court architect Olivier Pavelt

The castle guards were called "wybrańcy" (the chosen ones) because they were selected by the Promnitz family from among peasants in their territories, and they continued to guard the castle until 1875

Gate of the Chosen, built in 1687, is the oldest preserved part of the castle complex in its original form and served as the main entrance to the castle grounds. Constructed by builder Consilio Milius for castle owner Baltazar Promnitz, it replaced a 15th-century gatehouse with a drawbridge over the moat and housed quarters for castle guards. The gate features a stone portal with coats of arms of the Promnitz family and a Latin inscription containing a chronostich that reveals the construction date.

Beautiful view of Lake Paprocany and the Hunting Castle. I recommend

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