What survives here is the shell of a palace whose interior was completely destroyed by fire on 16 June 2024. The blaze left its exterior walls standing, turning Pałac Stolbergów into a particularly stark fragment of Wrocław’s built past. This is a historic palace in Świniary, and it began in 1845 for Count Bernhard Joseph von Stolberg-Stolberg.
He chose ground occupied earlier by a medieval fortified site, once set between the Widawa and the Młynówka branch; the former river channel was filled during the twentieth century. Ferdinand Fleischinger designed the residence in an Italianate version of neo-Gothic, arranged around a U-shaped plan. It originally rose through three storeys, with three wings and hefty crenellated corner towers on the front range.
A later owner, Count Arthur von Henckel-Donnersmarck, enlarged the west wing by one floor; Carl Lüdecke’s design kept the addition visually consistent with the older work. Wrocław’s city council bought the estate in 1895 and converted it into a convalescent home two years later, altering its services and stairways. After 1945, it became a state farm, with staff housed inside the palace. Even in its damaged state, the surviving fabric still carries the bold neo-Gothic outline of that long, changing history.
