Brzezinka, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Brzezinka ( Briese German ) is a village with about 320 inhabitants in the municipality Oleśnica, powiat Oleśnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is located ten kilometers north-east of Oleśnica.

History

Today's Brzezinka was a primogeniture of Imperial Count of Kospoth with a baroque castle built in 1725, is since 1945 a ruin.

1664 died here Silvius Nimrod, Duke of Oels of a stroke. The residence was ( 1 of Malt tooth, 2nd from Promnitz, 3rd from Kospoth ) built in 1725 for the brothers Carl Christian and Joachim Wenzel Count of Kospoth and then from 1729 to 1751 for their thrice married niece Anna Sophie von Erbach.

The palace was built around 1740 to a design by Johann Blasius Peintner by the builder filler. The rich decoration of the interior is the work of sculptor Johann Albrecht win joke, the mason Johann Adam Karinger, the Italian Stuckatoren Taroni and Brentani and the Painter Franz de Becker. The single-storey building with the raised central block in which the vestibule to the main staircase, the garden room on the ground floor and the large room on the upper floor, one of the few Silesian residences of the 18th century, in which the late-Baroque space solution of the interior to the full extent makes its appearance. Inside numerous portals, fireplaces, stucco decorations. The entire location of the residence between the courtyard and the regular, French-style park with rich sculptural decoration - since 1950, 25 sculptures located in the park of the castle Wilanów in Warsaw - is unusual for Silesia. Today the castle is strong expire unused and is for sale.

Sons and daughters of Oels

• Konrad Materne (1815-1882), teacher of religion