Palace in Wierzbięcin

The palace in Wierzbięcin, a village in Nowogard municipality, is a Neo-Renaissance building from 1873-1876 with classicising, moderate elevations, listed in the heritage register. It forms a residential complex with a manor farm, a landscape park and a half-timbered church. Today it is unused and falling into ruin.

History

Wierzbięcin has medieval origins, and from the 16th century it belonged to the von Dewitz family. In 1820 a half-timbered manor house was built here, and the present palace was erected in 1873-1876 on the commission of Gustav Wilhelm von Dewitz. In 1945 the complex was taken over by the state, and the palace housed offices and flats of State Agricultural Farm (PGR) workers. Since the end of the 1980s the building has stood empty, in 1999 it was sold to a private person, and the announced leisure and spa centre was not created.

The building

The palace, of late Neoclassical forms with Neo-Renaissance elements, stands on a plan close to an inverted letter L. The front projection is decorated with Tuscan pilasters and a triangular pediment with the owners' coats of arms, and on the north-east side adjoins a three-storey staircase tower with a clock and a pyramidal helm. The roof is covered with slate. The representative elevation faces a clearing of the park, which surrounds the residence on three sides. The interiors have not preserved their furnishings or decoration.

Practical information

• Address: Wierzbięcin 33, Nowogard municipality.
• The register description says the site is accessible from the outside.
• Next to it, about 100 m away, stands the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wierzbięcin, half-timbered, from 1737, with a wooden tower from 1759. It is about 3 km to the manor house in Kulice.