Top 10 Castles around gmina Żagań

The castle was built in the 13th-14th centuries on the site of an older wooden and earthen stronghold by the Piast dynasty of Głogów and Żagań. Paid tours are available from Wednesday to Sunday (symbolic fee: 3 PLN concession, 5 PLN standard).

An impressive building, it's impossible not to notice it when driving along the road!

The castle in Broniszów was built as a knight's building in the late Middle Ages. The first owner was supposedly Bronisław, Count of Bytom Odrzański. At the beginning of the 17th century, the von Kottwitz family expanded the castle into a Renaissance residence on the plan of the letter L. In the elevated, three-storey building, two representative halls were maintained on the ground floor: one of them is covered with a beamed ceiling with an impressive Renaissance stucco decoration from the end of the 16th century, the other is covered with a Renaissance vault with a fitting ornament. The main entrance to the castle is located in the northern façade. It is decorated with a stone late Renaissance portal with the inscription ANNO MISSERIMA FORTUNA QUAE INIMICIS CARET 1608. The Baroque reconstruction from the end of the 17th century brought a change in the order of the windows, a Baroque dome of the northern tower and Baroque plasters at the expense of Renaissance sgraffito plasters. In the 19th century, the castle was rebuilt again. A brick wall and a neo-Gothic observation tower were added to the Renaissance manor house, creating an internal courtyard. The manor house was surrounded by a moat with a pond. The 20th century was not easy for Broniszow Castle. After 1945, the castle gradually fell into ruin. The renovation of this architectural monument began in 2010 and continues to this day. Thanks to our work, you can stay in one of the rooms available to guests and visit the interior of the castle. (zamekbroniszow.pl)

The castle can be visited, the interior is paid, but for free we have a beautiful courtyard and a pleasant trip around. Nicely restored.

The Krosno Gate Tower and a fragment of the defensive walls of Kożuchów. The fortifications date back to the 15th century, built during the expansion of the city's fortifications and their adaptation to artillery defense. The city gates were dismantled in 1819. Only the Krosno Tower has survived.

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

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

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.