Top 6 Castles around Szczyrk

Nice place, but the access is terrible.

View of the Lagoon and the President's Castle. Until 2024, there was an observation deck here, but it was demolished for safety reasons.

The fortifications that 🅆🄸🅃⭕ 🇵🇱 writes about are particularly clearly visible on the north-eastern side of the park surrounding the palace, where the outlines of two bastions and the curtain wall between them have been preserved. The western bastion is also quite well preserved, but the curtains adjoining it have been flattened.

More information at the following link: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Bielsko-Bia%C5%82a

After the fire in the palace, the Silesian Sejm decided to build a new, more representative building for the purpose of a holiday residence for the President of the Republic of Poland as a gift from Silesia and the Silesians for the head of state. An outstanding Krakow architect, prof. Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, who in the years 1929–1931 designed a complex of modernist buildings. In the place of the former hunting palace, the so-called The Lower Castle, intended for the presidential entourage. The Lower Castle and the Gajówka, apart from the periods when the President of the Republic of Poland or his guests stay in the residence, serve as hotel and conference rooms and are open to the public. Already in the early 1930s, the castle was powered by electricity, had its own drinking water intake, central heating and its own two-chamber sewage treatment plant. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Castle_of_the_Republic of Poland_w_Wi%C5%9Ble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_WQ2ZJLZpM

The Castle of the President of the Republic of Poland in Wisła (popularly: Zameczek) - a modernist palace in Wisła, built in 1929-1930 according to the design of Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz for the President of the Republic of Poland Ignacy Mościcki; in the years 1931-1952 and since 2002 the residence of the President of the Republic of Poland. A modernist palace in Wisła, erected in 1929–1930 according to the design of Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz for the President of the Republic of Poland, Ignacy Mościcki; in the years 1931-1952 and since 2002 the residence of the President of the Republic of Poland. Habsburg hunting lodge In 1906, the Archduke of Cieszyn, Frederick Habsburg, delighted with the richness of the Beskid forests, ordered a hunting lodge to be erected on the slope of Zadni Groń. A one-story, larch building in the Carpathian-Tyrolean style was designed by the archduke builder Ernest Altmann, and it was built by the well-known company of Eugeniusz Fulda from Cieszyn. The facility consisted of two wings folded in the shape of the letter "L", each 37 m long. They came here mainly to hunt in the forests of Barania Góra: in the spring to the grouse breeding ground, and in the autumn to the deer rutting ground. The guests of Archduke Frederick and his wife Princess Isabella von Croÿ-Dülmen were, among others, in 1915 German Emperor Wilhelm II with General Hindenburg, also Charles I, Emperor of Austria with General Hötzendorf. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Castle_of_the_Republic of Poland_w_Wi%C5%9Ble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bP8FsknQtg&pp=ygUzWmFtZWsgUHJlenlkZW50YSBSemVjenlwb3Nwb2xpdGVqIFBvbHNraWVqIHcgV2nFm2xl

The castle rising in the center of Bielsko-Biała is the oldest and largest historic building in the historic city of Bielsko. According to legend, in its place there used to be a stronghold of robbers attacking traveling merchants. The Duke of Opole, Kazimierz († 1229/30), was to capture this fortress and exterminate the robbers, and erect a hunting manor in this place, which was later expanded into a magnificent castle, next to which the city developed. There is a grain of truth in every legend. Archaeological research confirms that there was probably a wooden castle in the place of today's castle in the 13th century. It acted as a watchtower guarding the crossing over the Biała River and the intersections of important trade routes: the salt route from Kraków to Cieszyn, to Moravia and the Czech Republic, and the route from Upper Silesia through Żywiec to Hungary. In the second half of the fourteenth century, the watchtower, destroyed by fire, was replaced by a brick castle, erected by the Duke of Cieszyn, Przemysław I Noszak († 1410). The building, from the beginning included in the Bielsko fortification system, being the strongest element of its fortifications, represented the type of the so-called city castle. At the same time, it played an important role as a Silesian border fortress: the nearby Biała River divided the district principalities of Cieszyn and Oświęcim from 1316, it became the Czech-Polish state border in the mid-15th century, and in the years 1526–1772 it separated the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The castle in Bielsko, gradually expanded and transformed over time, served as one of the seats of the Cieszyn Piasts for over two centuries. In 1572, it became the administrative and economic center of the independent Bielsko state state (Latin status minor), ruled by representatives of the noble families of Promnitz (1572-1582), Schaffgotsch (1582-1592), Sunnegh (1592-1724), Solms (1728- 1742) and Haugwitz (1742–1752). From the end of the 16th century, it was more and more transformed into a noble residence, without losing its defensive values: despite being burnt by the Swedes at the end of the Thirty Years' War (1646), it was still considered one of the most important in Silesia in 1689. https://muzeum.bielsko.pl/pl/historia-muzeum-zamek https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeum_Historyczne_w_Bielsku-Bia%C5%82ej_%E2%80%93_Zamek_ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%85t_Su%C5%82kowskich

The castle in Łodygowicach is located in the surroundings of a park on the river Żylica. Built in the 17th century by the castellan of Kraków, Jerzy Zbaraski. Previously, a wooden manor house of the Komorowski family, who owned the surrounding area from the mid-16th century, stood in its place. Over the next years, the castle changed both its owners and appearance many times. Originally it was a defensive castle, surrounded by an earthen rampart, a moat and bastions in the corners, which made it a fortress difficult to get. In 1866. the castle was purchased by Klementyna Primovesi de Weber, wife of Adolf Klobus, an Austrian major. They thoroughly rebuilt the fortress for their own needs. As a result of the reconstruction, the castle lost its military significance, and part of the fortifications was pulled down. The Klobus family owned Łodygowice with its adjoining areas until the death of the last descendant of Otto Klobus in 1942. In 1939, the staff of the German army was stationed in the castle, and in 1945 the castle's equipment was stolen. Currently, the castle building has been converted into a cultural institution. The castle has a neo-gothic style. In the park surrounding the castle, you can still come across the still visible old fortifications, i.e. the remains of earth bastions, embankments and moats. The castle has two storeys. The entrance to the castle leads through arcades with a balcony above them. http://www.lodygowice.pl/kompleks-palacowo-parkowy- https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dw%C3%B3r_w_%C5%81odygowicach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZ3746RrCo