Palace Ruin in Kąkolewice

The ruin of the Neoclassical palace in Kąkolewice in Węgorzyno municipality is entered in the heritage register together with the palace complex. The register dates the building to the 18th century and describes it as brick, in the Neoclassical style. The Wikipedia entry on the village gives the 18th/19th century and adds that only the cellars of the building have survived.

History of the estate

Kąkolewice, formerly Kankelfitz, was in the 18th century a fief of the Pomeranian Borcke family. Ernst August Philipp von Borcke was born here in 1766, the last head (starosta) of the Borcke county and the first head of Regenwalde county. In 1787 Wilhelm Friedrich Leopold von Borcke died here, who had run the Borcke county since 1770.

What remains

By the ruin stand the remains of farm buildings with stone perimeter walls, reaching the height of the roof truss, and a naturalistic park from the 18th/19th century covering 6.5 ha with old trees.

Practical information

• Address: Kąkolewice 7, Węgorzyno municipality. The building is a ruin, and there is nothing to visit inside.
• About 400 m away stands the Church of St Joseph in Kąkolewice, half-timbered, from 1732.
• About 900 m away lies the palace in Lesięcin; the two estates long had common owners.