Historic sites
a neo-Baroque red-brick guest house of the Donnersmarcks in the park in Świerklaniec
Historic sites
artificial ruins of a neo-Gothic structure of the Donnersmarck family, with a surviving tower
Churches and monasteries
Neo-Gothic palace church and family mausoleum of the Donnersmarcks, designed by Raschdorff
Świerklaniec's buildings recall the Donnersmarck family: a neo-baroque palace, a church in neo-Gothic style with a mausoleum, and artificial ruins.
Świerklaniec was the seat of the princely Henckel von Donnersmarck family. The surviving buildings show what the residence looked like and what surrounded it.
Set in a historic park at 30 Parkowa Street, the Kawaler Palace is a neo-baroque residence of red brick. Ernst von Ihne designed it as accommodation for visitors of the princely family, and it went up early in the twentieth century, in 1903-1906. It numbers among the best preserved buildings of the former residential complex.
In the northern part of the park, at number 38a, stands the Church of the Good Shepherd with a mausoleum joined by a cloister. The neo-Gothic church was built in 1896-1897 to a design by Julius Carl Raschdorff; today it is a branch church of a Catholic parish.
East of Orzech, right at the border with Świerklaniec, stand the romantic ruins: a nineteenth-century imitation of a castle, of which mainly a tall tower remains. The fall of the palace and the return of its gate are described in the article Pałac w Świerklańcu zwany Małym Wersalem. Other monuments are listed under architecture and on the page for Świerklaniec.
Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck commissioned it as a guest house, and Ernst von Ihne designed it.
No. It is an artificial nineteenth-century structure imitating a medieval castle that never existed.
