| Krzyżowa | |
 The palace complex in Krzyżowa | |
| Information | |
| Country | Poland |
| Region | Lower Silesia |
| Height | 230 m above sea level |
| Population | 220 |
| Area code | ( 48) 74 |
| Postal Code | 58-112 |
| krzyzowa.org.pl Website | |
Krzyżowa - village in Poland, in Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, in Świdnica district, headquarters rural commune, It lies on the river A saw.
Characteristic
Geographical location: 50 ° 47′58 ″ N 16 ° 32′04 ″ E
In the years 1975-1998 the village administratively belonged to the then Wałbrzych Province.
Krzyżowa was always on the sidelines. Linguists even develop its German name (Kreisau) as a "border village". This location - distant from the center of the Second World War - became a great asset for the group of conspirators. The "Kreisau Circle", as they were called by the Gestapo, had been meeting there since 1940. Aristocrats, diplomats and clergy saw the imminent defeat of Germany, so some planned to kill Adolf Hitler. The conspiracy was revealed and in early 1944 the conspirators were repressed. When the attack on Hitler also failed in the summer of 1944, the informal leader of the conspirators and the owner of the palace, Helmut, James Graf von Moltke, was executed in January 1945. His grave was not found.
The palace of von Moltke, which we admire today, dates from 1720 and has a beautiful, austere, neo-baroque shape. It stood on a hill above the former Pilawa riverbed. Together with the church and farm buildings, it forms the wings surrounding the park. The very house where the conspirators met is standing on the side.
After World War II, when Lower Silesia fell to Poland, the palace shared the fate of many similar buildings. The state-owned farm located in it led the building to ruin. Reconstruction started only in 1990.
In 1989, an exceptional event took place in Krzyżowa - a meeting between the Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. At that time, a mass of reconciliation between our nations was celebrated, and the sign of peace that the politicians gave each other was a symbolic closure of the tragic Polish-German history.
Today, the palace houses the Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, which continues this work. You can see the permanent exhibition "Courage and Reconciliation". A fragment of the Berlin Wall stands in front of the palace.
The palace can be visited every day from 8-19. It is adapted to the needs of the disabled, there is a convenient parking lot next to it.
Drive
By plane
By rail
Train station on the 137 railway line, opened in 1899 Katowice – Legnica.
By car
Krzyżowa is located at Lower Silesia, 8 km southeast of Świdnica, near the provincial road No. 382 connecting the state border Paczkowa by Ząbkowice Śląskie (national road No. 8) with the voivodeship road No. 374 in Stanowice Near Strzegomia.WITH Wroclaw is 55 km (southbound).
By bus
By ship
Communication
Worth seeing
The following objects are included in the list of monuments:
- branch church of St. Michael the Archangel, gothic, erected in the early Fourteenth century, partially rebuilt after a fire in 1846, oriented, made of stone, single-nave with a rectangular presbytery, covered with a rib vault.
- Evangelical cemetery of the von Moltke family, from 1870
- palace and farm complex, neo-baroque from the 17th-19th centuries:
- palace from 1712-26, rebuilt in 1868-69
- Park
- farm, from the first half of the 19th century:
- 5 residential buildings
- stables
- sheepfold-cowshed
- livestock building
- barn
- coach house
- weight building (nonexistent)
Nearest neighborhood
- Świdnica (Church of Peace, the only Museum of Old Trade in Poland, located in the market square, the Museum of Weapons and Military, located next to the cathedral, and a chocolate factory, are also worth mentioning,
- Ślężański Landscape Park,
- Walim (Nazi underground arms factories),
- Wałbrzych,
- Książ Castle.
work
Science
Shopping
Gastronomy
A small cafe located in the park surrounding the palace offers delicacies of Polish and German cuisine.
Parties
Accommodation
There is a hotel on the property.
contact
Krzyżowa Palace, ul. Krzyżowa 7, Grodziszcze Krzyżowa, phone: 74 850 02 00.
Security
Tourist information
Around the palace and the village of Krzyżowa there are excellent areas for cycling, bike rental on site.
Trip
See also
- Ewa Lodzińska, Waldemar Wieczorek Amazing Poland. Guide to Poland. Lower Silesia: an atlas guide, ed. Demart 2012,
- Joanna Lamparska Secrets, castles, dungeons. A guide that has never been, pub. Asia-Press Wrocław 1998,
- Romuald M. Łuczyński Castles, manors and palaces in the Sudetes, Legnica 2008, p. 197
- www.krzyzowa.org.pl
- www.dolny-slask.org.pl /506149,Krzyzowa.html
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