Historic sites
a Renaissance castle of the Grodziecki family on the salt route, never destroyed, with a museum and a park
Parks and nature
a forest reserve in a stream valley in the Silesian Foothills with riparian forests and black storks
Parks and nature
a forest reserve with oak-hornbeam and Carpathian beech woods, ravines, ponds and monumental trees
Churches and monasteries
the ruin of the 16th-century church of the Grodziecki family, with chancel, apse and crypts, under a roof
Things to do in Grodziec in Cieszyn Silesia: a Renaissance castle with a museum, a ruined church in the park and two forest nature reserves.
This is Grodziec in the Jasienica commune, in the Silesian Foothills, just north of the Silesian Beskids. What the list offers is a castle with a park and two reserves, one in a valley and one on a hill.
The castle in Grodziec has a masonry phase from the fifteenth century, and its present Renaissance form dates from the sixteenth. According to descriptions it never burned down or fell into ruin, so it kept a great deal of its original fabric. A museum operates inside, and visits take place at set hours after booking. In the park, about 70 metres west of the castle, stand the ruins of the Church of St Bartholomew from 1579, with the presbytery and apse preserved.
Nature lovers will find the Dolina Łańskiego Potoku reserve, created in 1998, which protects riparian forest along the stream. The second, the Morzyk reserve, was created in 1996 on the slopes of a hill and protects oak-hornbeam forest and Carpathian beech forest with many monumental trees. Entry to both is free.
Yes, a museum is housed inside, and visits take place at set hours after prior booking.
Natural oak-hornbeam forest and Carpathian beech forest with monumental trees, on the slopes of the hill of the same name.
