Witków

State of preservation:		The monument has preserved in its entirety, though in a lousy condition
Admission:		There is no entrance to the tower
Parking:		There is no parking lot nearby the manor
Searching difficulty:		Finding the tower is not difficult
Access difficulty:		The access to the monument does not require a cat’s agility
Subjective rating:		A nice manor

Driving directions:

Driving from Żagań down the road no 12 towards Leszno you have to turn left to Borów, and next turn left again to Witków. There you should drive down the main road through the village and past the footbridge, on the right side of the road the tower is observable from afar.




Historical outline:

A former name: Wittgendorf

A knight’s residential tower in Witków emerged in the XIVth cent. In the middle of postwar research a XVth century polychromies presenting a wedding of Nikel von Warmsdorf, the then owner of the stronghold, were discovered. In the XVIIth cent. to the tower was annexed a lower building, in which probably there was a kitchen. In the years of 1978-1984 the monument was an object of research, which was not completed. Subsequently it became the seat of research station of the Archeological Museum of the Middle Upper Oder. Apparently it fulfills that function up to this day, but already in 2006 the building looked abandoned.


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Nearest castles:

Kożuchów

Borów Polski

Dzietrzychowice

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