Top 4 Castles around Iłowa

In an idyllic park not far from the Neisse River lies the remains of a castle complex. The Hunger Tower was named after Duke John II, who killed his brother Balthasar by starving him of food.

The Hunger Tower is located in the Przewóz Park, in the town of the same name, Przewóz, opposite the German town of Podrosche. If you are travelling on the Neisse cycle path, don't be afraid to take a detour. It is about 1 km from the border crossing.

It is worth visiting at any time of the year, but I recommend it most in summer or autumn.

The Hunger Tower owes its name to the starvation death of Balthasar.

A castellan castle in Sagan is documented for 1202. It consisted of a wood-earth system. Apparently, a second castle complex soon existed, which was built by the Sagan Duke Konrad III in 1284. handed over to the Augustinian Canon Monastery, which had been relocated from Naumburg am Bober to Sagan that year. A third castle, to which today's castle goes back, located on the banks of the Bober, was sold in 1472 by Duke Hans II of Sagan to the House of Wettin. After a fire, this system was rebuilt for Duke Georg von Sachsen as an irregular four-wing system. After 1549 the castle was owned by the Habsburgs, who enfeoffed the von Promnitz with the rule. In 1627 the duchy was sold to Albrecht von Wallenstein by Emperor Ferdinand II. After his order, a four-wing new building was built under the direction of Vicenzo Boccacci using two existing castle wings, which is considered to be the first building of the early Baroque in Silesia. After Wallenstein's murder, the buildings were stopped. From 1646 Wenzel Eusebius von Lobkowicz was enfeoffed with the rule, who commissioned Antonio della Porta to complete the building with slight changes to the original plan. Wenzel Eusebius' grandson Philipp had the interior work done. From 1786, Duke Peter Biron von Kurland was in possession of the rulership, and had the interior of the palace redesigned in a classicist style. with stucco ceilings based on designs by Christian Valentin Schultze. Duke Peter also had an important art collection built. His daughter Louise Pauline had a chapel built in the east wing in 1839 according to plans by Leonhard Dorst von Schatzberg. Via the youngest daughter of Duke Peters, Dorothea von Sagan, the castle came to the Talleyrand-Périgord, who owned the castle even after the communist takeover of the region. However, when the Red Army moved in and in the late 1940s, the castle was completely looted. After repairs from 1965 to 1983, the castle serves as the city's cultural center. Source: Wikipedia

Palace of the Counts of Promnitz (Baroque building by the Swiss architect Giovanni Simonetti, built from 1710 to 1728 as a monumental four-wing complex). Source: Wikipedia

In 1626 Christian von Schellendorff had a palace built in the late Renaissance style on an island in the Tschirne (Czerna) with three storeys, a raised risalit and a tower tower. The main entrance with three arched portals was remarkably designed. From 1682 the barons of Promnitz were the owners, who redesigned the palace in Baroque style in 1712 and had a west wing added in 1720. After several changes of ownership, the castle was among other things. owned by von Kospoth, von der Recke and von Holleben. From 1902 Friedrich Maximilian von Hochberg was the owner, who in 1905 had the castle redesigned according to a design by Robert Weber. The central tower was given an onion helmet, the facade was redesigned in neo-baroque style, a reinforced concrete vestibule was placed in front of the portal, and the west wing was given an annex to the ballroom. Inspired by a trip to Asia, Friedrich Maximilian von Hochberg had the garden redesigned with several partial gardens. A Japanese garden with small watercourses and bridges between islets was laid out on an island in the Tschirne. From the castle to the west, the Chinese garden extends as a further partial garden, bounded by two backdrop-like clinker walls on a curved floor plan with round and oval window openings, which are intended to be reminiscent of Chinese moon gates. A path leads to the border of the garden, where a staircase and pagoda architecture crosses a street as a pedestrian bridge. Another area was the rose garden enclosed by an ornamental wall. From 1919 the von Alvensleben were the owners. Today the palace park has been extensively renovated. Source: Wikipedia Castle and castle park are accessible.

Until 1684 Mildenau was owned by the von der Dahme and von Knobelsdorff families, from 1685 until the end of the 18th century owned by the von Dyhrn family, who rebuilt and enlarged the old castle. The last owner of this family on Mildenau was Marianne von Dyhrn, through whom the manor passed into the possession of her direct descendants from the Keck von Schwarzbach family around 1793. In 1827 the manor came into the hands of the von Mutzdorf family. The value of the entire manor with the castle and 40 individual ponds was estimated at around 30,000 Reichsthaler. Leberecht Theüner acquired it around 1841, and his son Moritz Theüner inherited it nine years later. The von Wackerbarth family bought the estate in 1913, but sold it three years later to an entrepreneurial family from Sorau who were active in the textile industry. Around 1928 Mildenau became the home of the von Dyhrn family again, today a welfare home. Source: Wikipaedia You can enter the area without any problems.