Krasków

State of preservation:		The palace has preserved as the whole
Admission:		The palace houses a hotel at present so the entrance is restricted
Parking:		By the building there is a free parking lot
Searching difficulty:		The building is by the main road so it is very easy to find
Access difficulty:		The access to the hotel is not difficult
Subjective rating:		A nice palace

Driving directions:

Driving from Świdnica down the road no 35 towards Wrocław you drive through Marcinkowice. There you must turn left and head for Domanice. That way you will pass through Krasków where the palace stands by the main road on the left side.


Historical outline:

The history of the palace in Krasków dates back to the XIIIth cent., when at the place of a present building stood a wooden-earth borough. At its place in the XIVth cent. a brick knight’s castle was constructed. Then the building was often changing its hands. In the years of 1611-1616 Zygmund von Zedlitz rebuilt the castle, which was destroyed 51 years later during the Thirty Years War. The next destructions were brought about by the fire from 1742. The monument was then rebuilt in a style of a baroque palace. In 1848 the building was passed in bequest into hands of Rudolf von Salisch, whose family ruled over the palace till the end of the World War II. After the war as it usually tended to be with that type of buildings, the palace became the seat of PGR (state-owned collective farm), which contributed to a considerable devastation. Next the castle had a few different private owners until 1992 when its restoration was started. Since then the castle houses a hotel.


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Nearest castles:

Kąty Wrocławskie

Krobielowice

Borzygniew

Pastuchów

Domanice

Piotrowice Świdnickie

Bronów

Rogów Sobócki

Sobótka - Górka

Panków

Bagieniec

Sobótka (Ślęża Mountain)

Cisy Castle (of the Cis family)

Świdnica

Wałbrzych

Wałbrzych

Słupice

Stoszów

Zagórze Śląskie

Gola Dzierżoniowska

Dzierżoniów

Pieszyce (Rościszów)