Neoclassical palace of the early 20th century in Trzebież on the Szczecin Lagoon, open to visitors by arrangement.
Manowce Palace stands in Trzebież (called Haffhorst until 1945), on the Szczecin Lagoon, on the edge of the forest and far from the nearest village. It is a neoclassical building of the early 20th century, a privately managed historic property.
The palace was probably built to a design by Theodor Bless. The investor and first owner was Georg Wegner, chief physician and director of the hospital in the Pomorzany district of Szczecin. Earlier, from 1754, a tar works operated on the site, followed by a timber yard and a place for loading and floating timber. In 1923 the property was bought by Eduard Silbernagel, and in 1941 he sold it to the NSV organisation, which set up a training centre here. The palace survived the war undamaged, and in 1945 it was taken over by Soviet troops and became a post of the Border Protection Troops. From the late 1940s to the early 1990s it served for recreation, among other uses as a holiday camp of the Warsaw authorities. In the 1990s a private investor began a conversion and abandoned it; the current owner has restored the palace and the park to their former state.
The interiors combine old furniture and paintings with modern fittings. The property serves mainly as a venue for receptions and company meetings, and according to the palace's website it is neither a hotel nor a restaurant.
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