The palace in Kamieniec in Zbrosławice municipality: a Baroque body from the 18th century, extended in 1872-1873 and in 1910, entered in the heritage register.
The palace in Kamieniec stands on a terraced rise above the Drama river, in Zbrosławice municipality in Tarnowskie Góry County. It is entered in the heritage register (no. 347/60 of 1960), and its present body dates from the 18th century. It now houses a Medical and Rehabilitation Centre for Children.
On the ruins of an earlier castle, the Kokorz family built a Renaissance castle in the 16th century. On its foundations, in the early 18th century, Martin Scholtz von Löwenkron built a Baroque palace, with a two-storey body and a mansard roof. In spring 1750 the palace, together with the surrounding lands, was bought by Karl Joseph Strachwitz, who made it his main residence.
In 1872-1873 the Strachwitz family pulled down the wall with its towers and extended the palace in the Neo-Renaissance style. The last rebuilding was carried out in 1910 by Count Günther zu Stolberg-Stolberg, who gave the palace its present appearance with Neo-Baroque features. Towers appeared at the corners: a taller square one with a domed spire and a lower one with an onion-shaped spire. The decree on agrarian reform of 6 September 1944 took the estate from the Stolbergs.
East of the palace stands the Mouse Tower (Mysia Wieża) of fieldstone and brick. It was formerly thought to have been built in 1887 as an astronomical observatory. Archaeological research in 2000, however, uncovered remains of buildings from the late Middle Ages, including a Renaissance latrine and a hypocaust, that is, a medieval furnace heating rooms through ducts. The oldest phases of use of the tower (15th-16th century) are linked with the Renaissance castle of the Kokorz family.
The palace Chapel of the Nativity was funded in 1910 by Günther zu Stolberg-Stolberg. It was built on a circular plan, has a dome and late Baroque decoration, and in 2005 it regained its former splendour.
On the north side the palace has a rusticated portico with a terrace and stone lions bearing the coats of arms of Günther zu Stolberg-Stolberg and his wife Klara Schaffgotsch. Two plaques have been set into the façades secondarily: a late Renaissance one with the arms of the Kokorz and von Königsfeld families, and a late Baroque cartouche with the arms of the Löwenkron family. The palace is surrounded by a landscape park with old trees: ginkgos, Weymouth pines, Caucasian oaks and an imposing tulip tree.
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