The Palace and Park Complex in Grąbkowo

The construction works on this edifice commenced at the turn of the 19^th Century, when the property was owned by the von Puttkamer family and subsequently by Duke Karol von Isenburg und Budingen – Bierstein (1894 – 1897). From the dawn of the 20^th Century to 1945 the palace was in the Liwonius family. This 19^th-Century palace was erected in place of the former one, originating probably in the 18^th Century, whose remnants survived in some parts of the groundwork and in the south wing of the tower. The palace is a majestic, two-storey building with a tower and wings on the sides. Its style reflects the mode of the late-Baroque residences. Established on a rectangle plan it has an elongated central part. Its original furnishing was reduced to the fireplace with a cartouche for the coat of arms, fine stairs with a woodcarved openwork balustrade, walls adorned with wooden panels, stuccoed ornamentation in the form of flowers and decorative plafonds, and alcove-furnished kitchen furniture. There are also three magnificent ballrooms surviving on the ground floor. In the orangery the walls were fitted with elements of a coral reef.