Witostowice village in Poland, located in Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, in Ząbkowicki County, in in the Ziębice commune, at the foot of the Strzelińskie Hills.
Information
Geographic coordinates: 50 ° 41′01.21 ″ N, 17 ° 02′38.36 ″ E
In the years 1975-1998, the town administratively belonged to the then Wałbrzych Province.
Witostowice is a small village at the foot of the Niemczańsko-Strzelińskie Hills with very favorable recreational and leisure values.
Worth seeing
The attraction is the castle (known as the "water castle") surrounded by a wide moat, with a preserved tower and casemates, once the residence of the Henrician abbots.
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According to the registry National Heritage Institute the list of monuments includes:
- castle complex, from the 16th-19th centuries:
- water castle, built in the first half of the fourteenth century. Initially, the complex consisted of a residential building, a chapel, a tower and farm buildings, surrounded by a wall and a moat. The castle was rebuilt several times in the 16th and 17th centuries. A regular layout similar to a square was created then. Within the castle there are residential and farm buildings forming 3 wings, surrounded by a moat. On the fourth side, the courtyard is closed with a curtain wall on both sides with circular towers. The lock is currently for sale.
- walled park.
Tourist routes
- Blue trail: Ząbkowice Śląskie – Bobolice - Cierniowa Kopa - Zameczny Potok - Muszkowicki Beech Forest – Muszkowice – Henryków - Raczyce - Witostowice - Nowolesie - Nowoleska Kopa - Kalinka (hill) - Nowina - Dzierzkowa - Siemisławice - Przeworno - Krzywina - Garnczarek - Crossing under the Oak - The White Church. Information on the PTTK Strzelin website http://pttk-strzelin.pl/szlaki/
Where next
In the immediate vicinity there are natural forests on steep hills. It is a good starting point for Nowoleska Kopa, Gromnik and Kalinka as well as hills with traces of fortified settlements from the 9th-12th centuries.
In the villages surrounding Witostowice and Ziębice, there are numerous monuments of sacred art, churches, chapels, penitential crosses, border stones from the 13th century separating the former princely lands and the so-called Duchy of Bishop - the land of Otmuchów-Nysa. It is of particular importance Henryków, an old village with a complex of the former Cistercian monastery. The surrounding forests constitute very diverse communities.
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