Interesting places

The famous ruins are a Group I monument. The first palace in Goszcz was built between 1730 and 1740 on the site of a 12th century castle. However, it was destroyed by a huge fire in 1749. Between 1749 and 1755 a new palace was built, the ruins of which can be seen today. The whole manor-palace complex was grouped around a rectangular courtyard, the main axis of which was the palace building, built on a horseshoe plan with semicircular connectors passing on the sides into residential outbuildings and farm buildings.

Adjoining the palace from the north there is a courtyard surrounded by the houses of the court servants and a wall with three gates, and further to the north there is the manor church, once connected to the palace through an orangery. The buildings are of brick (the body of stone and turf ore), plastered, with tiled mansard roofs. The building belonged to the Reinchenbach family until January 1945. It was then occupied by Soviet troops and placed under the administration of the local administration. On Christmas Eve in 1947, a fire broke out in the palace and despite two weeks of rescue by several fire brigade units, it burned down. There is an extensive park to the south and east with an elongated pond established in 1830 and the remains of a naturalistic park adjacent to it. Today there are traces of an ornamental garden, hornbeam avenues and individually planted oak trees, and in the western part of the park the ruins of a garden pavilion. Parts of the complex are currently used as residential buildings and outbuildings.

Gradually, the manor buildings are being restored to their splendour. Between 2013 and 2015, a section of the north-west wing was renovated to be used as an Education, Culture and Tourism Centre for the cultivation of regional traditions. Theatrical performances, exhibitions and open-air painting workshops are held there.

Between 2020 and 2022, the main building and the palace façade were restored and preserved as a permanent ruin, open to the public. The building is open to the public, admission is free. Guided tours are available (appointment required). Many cultural events take place at the Goszcz Palace.