Piotrkowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Piotrkowice ( German United Peterwitz ) is a village in the municipality Prusice in the Polish Lower Silesian Voivodeship with about 500 inhabitants.

Geography

Piotrkowice located in the powiat Trzebnicki north of the western edge of the mountain cats, ten kilometers west-northwest of Prusice.

History

The reign of Peter Gross- joke is already mentioned in 1447. By buying Sebastian Nostic, 1574, the goods were combined and the family remained in their possession until they were sold in 1616 to Leonhard Skopp of Heinz village, whose widow bequeathed to her second husband Hans von Studnitz from which they, in turn, his daughter Anna Maria inherited from his first marriage. Anna Maria of Studnitz died childless, leaving behind large - Peterwitz 1722 her second husband Joachim Wilhelm von Maltzan and this. , After his death in 1728 his next wife, the Countess Anna Sophie Christiane of Erpach Her third husband, the Count Friedrich Kospoth, received the goods in 1759 and bequeathed it in 1782 to his second wife, a Countess Reichenbach, which has them in 1787, the Minister Adolph Graf von Danckelman bought. This inherited large - Peterwitz to 1848 to his sons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren on. His great-grandson, Count Eberhard of Danckelman, was responsible for the interior work, such as stucco ceilings and grand arches.

Attractions

The castle was built in its present form in 1693 by the conversion of the original Renaissance castle. The pilasters are the work of the plasterer Giovanni Simonetti. It is no longer used since the Second World War.