Baroque Palace (Castle) in Zabór

The Baroque castle (chateau) was rebuilt in 1745 and 1957. From the 18th century… The last owner of the palace before the Second World War was the second wife of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II Hohenzollern, Hermina, who lived in the palace until 1922 and after the emperor’s death until April 1945.
The impressive palace in Zabór is the only building in the region reminiscent of early Baroque French palaces. The building was constructed in the shape of a horseshoe with three storeys. The interior was also decorated in the Baroque style. In addition, the building is surrounded by a moat 3 m deep and 15 m wide. Around the courtyard there are beautiful baroque buildings. It also includes a park of 20 hectares with a symmetrical arrangement of alleys, the main axis of which is Liwno Lake.

The history of building dates back to 1677 and it was built by order of Johann Heinrich von Duennewald.
During the reign of Frederick August in 1745, there was a great fire, which partially consumed the castle, farm and castle brewery. Thanks to financing from Drezno the palace was rebuilt. It was given a rich external decoration. The interior was decorated in Rococo style. The rotunda hall located on the axis of the ground floor, ballroom on the first floor and hall located in the south-eastern corner of the third storey were rebuilt then. Additionally, a triangular pediment was added.
During the Seven Years’ War the palace was damaged by warfare. Count Cosel turned for compensation to the king of Prussia for the destruction done on his lands. He did not receive the money.

The Count’s conflicted character made him come into conflict with his neighbor von Goltz over the adjacent lands. The gentlemen clashed in a duel on the fields of the village of Łaz. The Count of Cosel was defeated. Although Goltz’s stab was not fatal, the count did not leave his bed and died two years later.

The palace, manor farm and park complex in Zabór is one of the most important Baroque residences of the French type.
The Baroque chateau (palace) was rebuilt in 1745 and 1957. Since the 18th century, it has belonged to the Cosel counts, then the princes of Siedlisko, the Schönaich-Carolath family. The last owner of the palace before the Second World War was the second wife of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II Hohenzollern, Hermina, who lived in the palace until 1922 and after the emperor’s death until April 1945. Since 1956 the palace housed a tuberculosis convalescent home for children, since 1976 – the Children’s Sanatorium, and since 1998 – the Children and Youth Treatment Centre. The castle together with the grange consisting of three outbuildings, an outhouse (now a school), a stable (now a hotel), a mortuary, a greenhouse, two outbuildings and a park constitute the castle complex.

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