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The building dates back to the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. It has been rebuilt many times. Its original interior features a Renaissance portal, decorated with a mosaic in 1929. A brick tower from 1700 replaced the previously existing wooden tower.

The turbulent fate of the hunting palace in Żary The further fate of the hunting palace was different: there was a tobacco and snuff factory here, in the years 1820-1834 members of the Masonic lodge "Three Roses in the Forest" met there, in the mid-18th century the palace rooms functioned as an inn and a dance hall with a bad reputation, in In the years 1884-86, the owner of the palace was Elżbieta Paulina Talleyrand, Duchess of Żagań, and in the years 1903-1945 the building belonged to the factory owner Georg Frenzl from Żagań. From April 1943, the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH plant produced small aircraft details here. The forest palace survived the war, but was systematically plundered. In 1963, a decision was made to demolish it due to its overall poor condition. Today, after the establishment of the palace and park, valuable park trees remain, including: huge oaks approximately 300-350 years old at the former main entrance gate, a maple and linden alley, and the most interesting specimens include Canadian hemlock, giant arborvitae and maple-leaved plane tree. Around the palace hill you can also see a plinth for a sculpture, a bowl of a baroque fountain, the remains of the palace and farm buildings, the site of a pond, and a viewing mound to the south-west. and the outlines of the moat and embankment east of the palace hill. Source: https://zielonalas.com.pl/

A masterpiece in the middle of the Green Forest The palace, built on the plan of a cross of St. Andrew, was surrounded by a park with a zoo. Outbuildings and residential buildings were built around the palace. At the foot of the palace hill, a rampart was built and a moat with a drawbridge was built. Clean water was supplied to the palace from today's Forest Spring (Nadia's Spring). In Żarska Arkadia, around the hunting palace, there were numerous park sculptures (including Flora, Faith and Theology, a female figure of Genius soaring through the clouds, a sculpture with a lamb and a book, an obelisk with the Promnitz coat of arms). Today, some of them, partially damaged, can be seen in the park of the Żarski Community Center at ul. Wrocławska. In the summer of 1745, in the last year of the Second Silesian War, the founder of the hunting lodge, Count Erdmann II von Promnitz, who was seriously injured by an attack by Austrian hussars, died here.

The palace and park complex was built in 1706-1709 at the request of Count Erdmann II Promnitz. In its center, on the top of an artificially elevated hill, there is a forest palace, also known as a hunting palace. The palace was a two-story building, covered with a multi-slope roof. There was a kitchen and utility rooms on the ground floor, while the second floor, with a centrally located twelve-sided room, served representative functions. In the wings of the palace there were square rooms, between the wings there were trapezoidal rooms, from which there was an exit to the terrace and the park, and on the other side to an added veranda.

One of the most interesting is undoubtedly the hunting palace of the Promnitz family, the former owners of Żary. The original building was erected on a hill in Zielony Las, 3 km south of the center of Żary, on the former postal route from Żary to Zgorzelec. The builder and founder was Erdmann II von Promnitz (1683 - 1745), a courtier of the Polish king and elector of Saxony, August II the Strong, who visited the castle and palace in Żary. A palace in an iconic place in Żary The choice of the place was not accidental, because about 100 m west of the palace hill there existed a stronghold and later a stronghold of the Lusatian culture 3,000 years ago, as evidenced by traces of ramparts and remains of pottery. In 1567, on a hill (Hunting Hill) there was a small wooden castle belonging to the Augustinian abbot Francis II (the so-called Francis Hermitage), which was probably built in a cult place with old pagan traditions.

The Green Forest hides many secrets. Residents of Żary walking along the marked paths do not realize that there are remains of old buildings among the trees. Ruins of post-mining buildings, the castle of the knight Kuno, who plundered travelers in the Valley of Death, and the Promitz hunting lodge. The forest is slowly absorbing the remains of spectacular buildings.

The hunting palace in Żary survived World Wars 2. There was a dance hall, a Masonic lodge and an inn there. Today there is no trace of him

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