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Palace in Sławików

Poland · 19th century

Founded
1865
Style
Eclectic architecture
Heritage status
immovable monument in Poland
Location
Sławików
Elevation
245 m
Coordinates
50.18517°, 18.21872°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Palace in Sławików in Poland
Photo: Kamil Czaiński · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Pałac w Sławikowie is a historic palace in the palace and park complex in the village of Sławików in Silesian Voivodeship, at present in a state of ruin.

The palace, not having been the subject of comprehensive research by archaeologists and historians, has no precisely determined date of origin.

Edward Wieczorek, in the book Racibórz i okolica, put the origin of the palace at the end of the 19th century, while Tadeusz Chrzanowski and Marian Kornecki in the Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce dated the origin of the palace to the third quarter of the 19th century. Grzegorz Wawoczny, in the work Zamki i pałace dorzecza Górnej Odry, linked the building of the palace with Frederick Gregor von Lautensac, who lived in Sławików in the 18th century.

German sources point to a longer or considerably longer history of the building, which in the second half of the 19th century is said to have been only rebuilt. In the years 1795–1831 the palace as it was before the rebuilding belonged to the Eichendorff family. It was a two-storey building, covered by a roof with an attic. The shape of this building is shown in a lithograph published in 1856 in the pages of the Berlin periodical "Zeitschrift für Bauwesen", issued by the publishing house of Ernst and Korn. In the years 1856–1865 the palace was significantly enlarged by Ernest von Eikstedt in the spirit of 19th-century eclecticism with dominant Neoclassical accents. The palace belonged to the descendants of Ernest von Eikstedt until 1945.

The palace was partly destroyed during the fighting for the Łubowice bridgehead between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the times of the Polish People's Republic it belonged to the local State Agricultural Farm. At that time the furnishings were stolen and the building fell into ruin.

Machine-translated from “Pałac w Sławikowie” on the Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Palace in Sławików ranks #6,831 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #256 of the 455 mapped in Poland. Founded 1865, it is older than 6% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 782 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 989 times in the last 60 days, more than 55% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Rybnik, 23 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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