Interesting places

The estate in Siekierowice belonged to the Heugel family before 1629, and from 1749 to the Puttkamer family, in whose hands it remained until 1945. In 1786 Marcin Antoni von Puttkamer, who established a majoraty in Siekierowice, built a palace, which has not been preserved to this day, accompanied by an ornamental baroque garden. In the second half of the 19th century, the garden was transformed into a naturalistic park with 120-year-old oak trees preserved today. The current chateau building, completely rebuilt and devoid of stylistic features, was built in the 20th century on the site of an older building known from a map of 1826. The mid-19th century chapel is situated at the southern edge of the landscape park, on a small hill in the middle of an island on the pond. It is a neo-Gothic octagonal building (a reference to the form of the Gothic central ossuaries, e.g. the chapel of St. Maternus at St. Elisabeth's Church in Wrocław, no longer extant), covered by a tent roof, with ogival windows with scrolled grilles and an entrance with wrought-iron double gates and a domed vaulted interior. Surrounding the Puttkamer chapel was the family cemetery. The location of the building indicates the great romantic fascinations of the founder and builder.

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