Zamek Kliczków — Hotel in gmina Osiecznica

Castle Kliczkow, Poland

Klitschkow Castle (Polish: Zamek Kliczków, German: Schloss Klitschdorf) is a castle located in the village of Klitschkow in the commune of Osiecznica, Bolesławiec Powiat, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

The castle was most probably founded by Prince Bolesław I Surov of Swidnica-Yavor as a frontier fortification on the River Kwise. The first mention of the castle dates back to 1297. In 1391, it passed into the ownership of the Rechenberg family from Saxony, to which it belonged for two and a half centuries. The main building of the castle was built in 1585 in the Renaissance style. In 1611, the castle was visited by the King of Bohemia, Matthias of Habsburg, who later became Holy Roman Emperor.

After several changes of ownership, in 1767 the castle passed into the possession of Count Hans Christian zu Zolms-Baruth. The Zolms-Barut family owned the castle until the middle of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, the reorganization of the Renaissance castle was carried out, in particular, a neo-Gothic tower was added to it, a new horse riding arena and the interiors were partially changed.

In 1877 the castle passed into the possession of Friedrich Hermann zu Zolms-Baruth. In 1881, the Berlin architects Heinrich Joseph Kaiser and Karl von Grossheim began another rebuilding of the castle, which lasted for four years. At the same time, they mixed different styles: English Gothic architecture with Italian Renaissance and French Mannerism. At the same time, the well-known landscape designer Eduard Petzold designed more than 80 hectares of English-style park.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Klichkow became a rather popular place for recreation and entertainment for the German aristocracy, so Emperor Wilhelm II himself took part in the hunt organized by the owners of the castle. In 1920, the castle was inherited by Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth, who was a representative of the German resistance movement against the Nazis in the Kreisau circle. He was arrested after a failed attempt on Hitler's life, and his property was confiscated.

The castle survived World War II virtually unscathed, but was looted by Soviet troops. In 1949, as a result of a fire, two wings of the castle completely burned down: the carriage house and the servants' house. The next owners of the castle - the Boleslav forestry and the Polish People's Army did not care too much about the state of the castle, as a result of which it fell into decay more and more, in particular, the roof was destroyed, then the walls, floors, boiserie, murals, portals, stoves and chimneys.

In the 1970s, unsuccessful attempts to save the castle were carried out by the Wroclaw University of Technology. After the fall of communism, a commercial company from Wroclaw bought the castle and turned it into a luxurious entertainment and conference center, which was...

All in all a lovely place. The castle itself is beautiful and so are the gardens. Even the surrounding villages have charm. I've spent easter here. The food was very good and we had a handsome choice of meals. The tour arround the castle was a highlight. The guide turned out to be a physics teacher who has a wonderful sense of humour. The architecture is very interesting and if you're looking for a peaceful place while keeping it interesting, that's a good place. For those who like cycling, walking or horse back riding, you'll find yourself at home.

I do recommend the place.

Before I end here, you'll notice I gave 4/5 stars. There were some things me or my family didn't like and I feel it's worth mentioning especially that it's easily fixable.

organisation of events is rather lacking. The egg searching fun activity for kids turned out a disaster. The castle team didn't provide enough eggs in the garden for the amount of kids. On top of that the eggs weren't spread out far enough so the first kids would collect all and the slower younger kids couldn't. Luckily my wife took some chocolate eggs of our own and we were dropping them for our kids to find. So we've saved the day. But in that case why pay for the event if you end up doing by yourself? We've seen lot's of other kids that had ZERO! We shared our chocolate with them. I think it would be wise for two or three employees to keep dropping more eggs as the kids spread out over the course of the event so that there is a steady supply of new eggs.

our room (121 & 122) was very spacious and luxurious, but... The lack of kitchen utensils was loughable. We did have food provided but making tea or eating cake was problematic with not enough plates or glasses

in the night some engine would periodically start and shutdown. This would distract your sleep. Everyone suffered the same sensation. It's like some system was trying to build up water pressure only to learn it's ok and switch off.

the door handle had a nail / sticking out and my father cut his finger. We reported this in the reception and it was quickly fixed. However it shouldn't be there in the first place... Not in a place of this status.

lastly the payment organisation was faulty. When leaving the reception didn't have full information for what we've already paid and we had to control or prove ourselves what the status is so that we wouldn't pay twice for...

I am not sure where the good reviews come from but in my opinion you can pass by. Firstly and foremost one cannot complain about the service since there is none. I would strongly suggest that a management team makes themselves present at the premises. There was one man (with brown hair) at reception that spoke English and one lady that spoke German (also had brown hair). For the balance be prepared to polish up your Polish before visiting. At the restaurant you may as well be invisible. Unless again, there is the waiter again with brown hair, that can assist in English. If you happen to speak to a waitress with short blonde hair and the bald waiter they simply look at you and walk away. Now it is at this moment that I would like to suggest to management that their team goes on some form of hospitality training (if they are of course intend on being in the hospitality industry). Oh yes, the bar lady with long blonde hair is great and speaks English. At least we could order beer!||So having said this we opted to pay a little extra for a bigger room. Somehow this was not noted on the system. One could investigate why it does not show. We also paid for dinner, bed and breakfast. Again, somehow this was not clearly visible at check in. The room was OK, but sink in kitchenette dirty with no dish cloths or some dish soap. I opted not to clean it for them. ||The food is great but very similar every day. I would like to recommend that they dispose of all their chipped crockery. ||If you are hungry at lunch in the week, be prepared to drive somewhere to eat. Or you can pay for the same meals which are available at night from the a la carte menu, provided of course that you stumble on someone that does not only speak Polish or has the (let’s ignore them) trait. ||There is a little shop that sells souvenirs but they were open Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday and opened Wednesday at about 11. That’s when we thankfully left. ||Their is a spa which I was really looking forward to using. They are however, surprisingly, extremely full. I had to wait 3 days to get an appointment which was afforded to me at 17h30. Sadly it was disappointing and more like a teeny weeny rub with fairy fingers. ||We will certainly never...