The most beautiful monuments of the Lubuskie

Lubuskie Voivodeship is a unique area on the map of Poland. It is a region full of wild forest backwoods of vast lakes and fertile fields and meadows. The landscapes here are breathtaking. It is a lively area, full of interesting species of flora and fauna as well as brave people full of bold ideas. Of course, these are historically rich areas. My beloved! On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of local government in Poland. I will take you on a journey today. We will go on the "Trail of the mo

st beautiful monuments of the Lubuskie Voivodeship" to discover the most precious pearls of this region. In the program I will present you 11 noteworthy monuments, which I assure you will want to visit in person. I invite you to watch. Beloved number 1 on our list, i.e. the Muskauer Park. It is a very special place because the park covers almost 730 hectares on both sides of the Nysa Łużycka River, which is the Polish-German border. It is the largest English-style park in Poland. The founder of

the park was Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau who, after numerous trips, including to England, became enchanted with landscape parks. In 1811 he inherited the estate in Muskau from his deceased father. Shortly after that, he issued a letter to the local residents, in which he asked for help in establishing an English-style palace park. about the palace! The New Castle This is the name of the building behind me. . It is a neo-Renaissance residence erected here in the 16th century

. It acquired its present shape in the first half of the 19th century thanks to the great cosmopolitan eccentric and traveler Prince Hermann von Pückler. Eminent architects brought from Italy worked on the reconstruction. A three-winged residence with four-storey side wings and a tower topped with a red dome dominating the panorama was created at that time. The Muskauer Park, by the decision of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in 2004, was entered on the World Heritage List as the 12th such f

acility in Poland. I was personally enchanted by this place. and I'd like to walk a little more. However, I strongly encourage you to do the same. Beloved village of Broniszów It was here in the late Middle Ages that a knight's castle was built, owned by Bronisław. Komes Bytom Odrzańskie lying in the Duchy of Głogów. But I will have time to tell you about Bytom in this film. In the 19th century, the castle was rebuilt again. A brick wall and a viewing tower in the neo-Gothic style were added to

the Renaissance manor , creating an internal courtyard. The tower and the courtyard can be seen behind my back. The manor house was surrounded by a moat with a pond, which unfortunately has no water today. At the beginning of the 17th century, the von Kottwitz family expanded the castle into a Renaissance residence on the L-plan. In the raised three-storey building, two representative rooms on the ground floor were maintained, one of them is covered with a beam ceiling with an impressive ornamen

tal stucco decoration from the end of the 16th century. The other is covered with a Renaissance vault with a ferrule ornament. The baroque reconstruction from the end of the 17th century brought a change in the order of the windows, the baroque helmet of the northern tower and baroque plasters at the expense of renaissance graphite plasters, the remains of which I will show you by flying from a drone. Beloved, the 20th century was not very favorable to the castle in Broniszów. After 1945, the ca

stle gradually fell into ruin. Its renovation started in 2010 and continues until today. This is one of the reasons why we couldn't get in today. The castle is of course open to visitors during the holiday season. The building captivates with its beauty not only from the outside, but also from the inside. Of course, I could experience it thanks to the photos posted on the Facebook page and on the website of the castle in Broniszów. I cordially encourage you to visit this beautiful historical mon

ument in person. The next item on our list is the castle in Zabór. Built in 1677, the baroque castle was built by Johann Heinrich von Dünewald. Legend has it that the palace in Zabór was built with ransom money for the Turkish Pasha, who was a prisoner of the imperial general. The palace complex was modeled on early Baroque French residences. The building has a shape of a horseshoe with three storeys, on which three main rooms are located. Rotundowa on the axis of the ground floor. A ballroom on

the first floor and a room on the third floor. The interior of the palace was also made according to the baroque style. Additionally, the building is surrounded by a moat 3 meters deep and 15 meters wide. Today there is no water there, but the aesthetic impression remains. The palace was rebuilt in 1745 and 1957. From the 18th century it was owned by the Counts Cosel, then the princes in the Schoenaich von Carolath family Habitat , which I will tell you about today. The last owner of the palace

before the Second World War was the second wife of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II Hohenzollern, Hermina. Today, this residence with stunning architecture has been transformed into a treatment center for children and young people, under the patronage of the Knights of the Order of Malta since 1998. I must tell you that the area is simply lovely. The park is a great place for a walk or a rest, and by the way you can see a really nice monument. We are located in the village of Siedlisko. The l

ocal castle was once the most beautiful residence in the region The construction of the castle complex began in 1597 thanks to Georg von Schönaich and the base for the expansion was the house of the Rechenberg family. The construction of the castle was completed in 1560, and the finished building contained a representative hall with portraits of kings, a ballroom supported by 12 columns, a courtyard, and a library and an armory, which were located in the gatehouse. which were in the gatehouse. I

n 1618, the construction of the castle chapel in the west wing was completed. It is the first chapel in Silesia built as a Protestant reading room. In the first quarter of the 18th century, the builder Wagner from Kożuchów built the northern and western wings of the castle, which, together with the earlier ones, closed the courtyard where I am now standing. In 1757, the bridge at the entrance gate was completed, it is the one behind my back. The pedestals of its balustrade are decorated with scu

lptures of mythological figures and two heraldic lions with shields. Unfortunately, they have not survived to this day, as you can see. Most likely they were stolen in 1945 by the Soviet army. Time for the palace in Zatonie. The palace was built in 1689 by Baltazar von Unruh, the then owner of the Zatonie estate, in the form of a baroque manor. The palace has two floors, but it was not always that high. In the years 1842-1843 it was rebuilt in a classicist form. Back then, it only had the ground

floor and the first floor, which were covered with a roof. During the reconstruction, it was raised by one floor and a new part was added. The old roof has not been returned to. At the same time also began to transform the park around the palace work was commissioned Duchess Żagańska, pardon my French, Dorothy de Talleyrand-Perigord, who moved here in the 40s of the nineteenth century. It's time to just her stay falls the best period in the history of the palace after After her death in 1862, h

er younger son Aleksander became the owner of the palace. On his initiative, in the early 1870s, the palace and the adjacent orangery were rebuilt. Unfortunately, just like the Carolath Castle in Siedlisko, the palace was burnt down by the Soviet army in 1945 and was not rebuilt anymore. In 2018, the ruins of the palace were secured and made available to visitors. The revitalization of the entire park cost nearly PLN 17 million. Let's hope that the authorities will not forget about this monument

and will keep trying to systematically improve its condition, so that it can finally fill the inhabitants of Zatonie with full pride again . Ladies and Gentlemen, we are in the market square in Bytom Odrzańskie. The Town Hall, which is located behind my back, is one of the most interesting monuments of Renaissance architecture in Poland. The first town hall in Bytom Odrzańskie was built around 1483. Unfortunately, this building was destroyed and it was demolished at the end of the 16th century

w. The current seat of the town was built in the years 1602-1609. unfortunately the building burnt down in 1694. The town hall was rebuilt in 1697. It was designed by Caspar Miller from Bolesławiec. In 1950, a lightning bolt destroyed the tower's cupola, which was reconstructed 14 years later. As you can see, the town hall has a very turbulent history. The Town Hall in Bytom Odrzańskie is the most representative building of this city and to this day it serves the function for which it was built.

It is the seat of the city's local government and administrative authorities. Unfortunately, it was unfortunate that today the town hall is under renovation and unfortunately you cannot see its interior, but hopefully the renovation will pass quickly and you will be able to admire it from the inside again. We are just in the woods under the sprat. Where is a fragment of the Silesian embankments. Colloquially known as the Chrobry embankments or the triple wall from the German Dreigräben . They w

ere to provide evidence for the existence of the then Silesia connection tribal tribe around SLEZAN and Silesia were protected from the west, however, the shafts were built in the fifteenth century, during the reign of Prince Henry IX Elder, the Silesian line of Piast. In order to mark the border between the principalities of Głogów and Żagań. The embankments are constructed from two or three parallel earth embankments with a maximum relative height of 2.5 m and are supported by natural obstacle

s. They are separated by ditches, while their total width reaches a maximum of 47 m. The Silesian embankments are of scientific and educational importance because they provide a broad insight into the organization of statehood in Silesia. starting in the late Middle Ages. They are also one of the elements of late medieval military art. They show the knowledge of the terrain topography at the time. At the same time, they are a relic of geodetic art. It is one of the most valuable objects of Siles

ian cultural heritage. The next item on our list is the medieval castle in Międzyrzecz. In the place where the building now stands There used to be a small Slavic stronghold. It was erected in the 10th century on the site of an earlier settlement from the 18th century. In the 13th century, the stronghold was the center of the Międzyrzecka castellany and had administrative and military functions. It also guarded the crossing of the Warta River. It was also of great strategic importance because it

was situated at the intersection of trade routes on the border of Greater Poland, guarding it from the west. Due to its location, the castle and later the castle was the target of military operations many times. During the war between the German Emperor Henry II the Holy and Bolesław Chrobry. It was captured and burned by the German army. In 1157. during the intervention of Frederick Barbarossa, it was abandoned and burned down again, this time by its own crew , like the other forts on the defe

nsive line of the Oder. After World War II, the entire complex was handed over to the museum. In the 1950s and 1960s, conservation works were carried out and the castle was secured in the form of a permanent ruin. Currently, the building can be visited all year round. It is a monument with an extraordinary and amazing history. Despite the fact that there is not much left of its former glory , it must be remembered that it has been standing here for over 1000 years as a castle in one form or anot

her . and this is an unusual age for a monument. Interestingly, in 1574, the first elected king of Pokski, Henry III Valois, who was going from France to Krakow to take the Polish throne , stayed in the castle in Międzyrzecz . My beloved, I would not forgive myself if the monument behind me was not on our top list.I mean, of course, about the cemetery church of Saint Katarzyna Aleksandryjskeij in Lubięcin, It is one of the oldest churches in Lower Silesia and in my humble opinion it is the oldes

t church. But why the oldest, this is a topic for a completely separate and very extensive section. The church has a very interesting and very long history, which I have discussed in more detail in previous films about this church to which I cordially invite you. For the purposes of this film, I will have to shorten it a bit. According to legends, the origins of the church date back to around 1201, when the first temple was erected between the lakes of Lubięćńskie and Kochanowo . The first writt

en records of the local parish appeared in 1372. The temple was probably wooden then. At the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, it was replaced with a brick building. According to the available information, it burned down during the Thirty Years' War. Only a part of the walls and epitaphs of the former owners of Lubięcin survived. After the church fire during the Thirty Years' War, the temple was of course rebuilt. Over the next centuries, it was rebuilt several times to finally close it after

the Second World War . Apparently because of its constantly deteriorating technical condition. The closure of the church only gave the looters permission to tear its interior. to the bare ground. Today, the church looks really beautiful from the outside thanks to recent renovations . Inside, apart from the stone sarcophagus of Helena Charlotte von Kottwitz, about which I also made an episode, we won't find much. We can only imagine what the church looked like in its heyday. It does not change t

he fact that the church is still a great monument. Beloved, we are in the United States, not in the United States, but on the Oder can also be interesting. The object that brought us here is the railway bridge. Which has recently been used as a bridge on the bicycle highway, a 50 km bicycle route built under the "Railway on a bicycle" project. The bridge was built in 1908 by the Beuchelt company from Zielona Góra. At both ends of the pier, there are two sets of brick watchtowers, the so-called b

lockhouses, in the form of neo-Gothic towers. These towers were connected by 12-meter posernas, i.e. underground passages, which in former forts were connected by specific battle positions. Each of the towers had its own water intake in the form of a well. The middle part of the bridge. that is the one that is behind me. She was blown up by retreating Germans. in 1945, the bridge was rebuilt 10 years later, however, the aboveground part of the watchtowers on the eastern side of the bridge, ie di

smantled in that direction. The bridge operated until the mid-90s. It connected Wolsztyn with Nowa Sól. This connection was severed in 1997 by a flood. Since then, the bridge has been unused for over 20 years, which means it has fallen into disrepair. Today he was given a second life. As I mentioned before. It is part of a 50 km bicycle route that runs through the Nowy Sola poviat along the route of the already closed railway line number 371 Wolsztyn-Żagań. The last position is not necessarily a

monument in the literal sense of the word. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the Witcher Elm since 1971 a natural monument. It is the thickest and probably the oldest documented specimen of English elm in Poland and Europe. This elm has 2 names, officially known as The Witcher. This name was selected in a competition organized by the Lubuskie branch of the nature protection league, while foresters from the nearby Gubin forest district simply call it Mieszko. The specimen was once 35 meters high. Ho

wever, in a storm in 2005, the longest limb broke off. Therefore, already in 2016, the tree did not exceed 19 meters. As you can see, the tree behind me is different from the one it describes. Unfortunately , on June 13 this year, the tree was seriously damaged as a result of the storm. An 18 meter long limb was broken. The trunk was damaged along its entire height, as well as the roots, which on one side of the tree were completely uprooted from the ground. According to the recent dendrochronol

ogical research, this tree is 467 years old today, which means that it has been growing here since 1553. Dear friends, it is impossible to imagine how many events this elm witnessed. As we can see, the tree is still alive. Let's hope that The Witcher will survive and continue to be a record holder in his field. Dear viewers What you saw in this film is only a percentage of what the Lubuskie Voivodeship is hiding from you. This film aims to arouse your curiosity and, above all, to encourage you t

o visit each of these places yourself . Because believe me, these are unusual, even magical places . Each of these places has its own interesting and unique story to tell . Because it does not matter in what condition the monument is in. Sometimes it is enough to stick your ears up and even in the ruins you will hear the sounds of history and the once vibrant life in them. My name is Kacper Milordzik Freitag. Thank you for your attention and see the next one.