schloss schildau (wojanow), schlesien, PL

our 2nd stopover on the way from munich (DE) to lodz (PL) after karlsbad (CZ) was the beautiful and really interesting to see wojanow castle - schloss schildau - palac wojanow in lower silesia (PL) (schlesien, slask) in poland - polen - polska. we love this former german settled areas in the trijunction CZ-PL-DE, you remember? 

there are at least two interesting stories to tell:

1. by a mistake i've booked two different rooms in two different categories in the same hotel wojanow castle for the same night => heaven & hell 👹. the 1st one in the middle of november, the 2nd in early december ... the annulation fee (storno) at booking.com is at the arrival day 100%. you woldnt expect any other number, would you? => 😱 ... [addendum 24.12.2024: as the hotel was half-empty outside of the regular tourist season, it charched just 1 of our 2 booked rooms (+ of course all the food + drinks at dinner + the breakfast) and we could get back the already paid hotel charge via booking.com today. NICE.] yes, there was a 2nd bad luck issue in schildau for us: we could not see the SCHNEEKOPPE (snezka) mountain from the garden restaurant due to heavy clouds. thus enjoy the quite low (1603m) but snowy hill at the CZ-PL border in my old blog post from 2021 i've linked above ... btw, snezka is the highest point of the czech republic. of course, poland has much much higher mountains in the high tatras region as poland's highest mountain is rysy (2499m) and is located at the SK-PL border. any conclusion? the lower silesia is always a nice place to be for us 😍
2. there is a 2nd nice hotel lomnica castle - schloss lomnitz - palac lomnica only some 200m-300m away. the two castles (parks) are divided only by the small bobr river (bober). yes, it is really small today ... but aprox 2-4 months ago during the heavy autumn rains in south-west poland, it indeed flooded the flat castle's park and even castle's cellar, so the winery was closed and machines run day and night in order to dry the rooms out there ...

our sightseeing aka stops this time?

• wojanow castle (schloß schildau)
• lomnica castle (schloß lomnitz)
• city of bolkow (bolkenhain)
• opatow in central poland => lunch break just 1h away from lodz (PL) by car

wojanow castle (schloss schildau, palac wojanow) since 1603-1607

wojanow castle (schloss schildau, palac wojanow)

erbaut 1607 = built in 1607

the breakfast room was a horse stable (stall, stajnia) before

the swimming pool was nice, the sauna + steam bath not any special ... 

i did not try the massage / beauty facilities this time, so i cant provide

any opinion on that. in summer you could swim in a nearby lake 🐋

dinner in the castle's saloon

this is the nearby fischbach castle (karpniki), which we have visited last year

good-bye schildau aka wojanow

industrial silesia

schloss lomnitz (palac lomnica)

what a nice timber framed church in the castle's park

good-bye, lomnica castle (schloß lomnitz)

city of bolkow (bolkenhain)

bolkow (bolkenhain) castle

on the road ...

for a short time we had beautiful clouds & colors down the road 

opatow, central PL

few more beautiful clouds & colors 😀

few more pictures here.

silesia 2021 (schlesien, slask)

PL ~ silesia, schlesien, slask, slezsko, sliezsko => SOOOO NICE 😃💓🍀

our stops this vacation?

• kudowa-zdroj, PL ~ the spa town at the czech-polish border
  
• stone labyrinths bledne skaly in NP gory stolowe (NP table mountains, tafelberge) close to kudowa-zdroj, PL
• radkow, PL
  
• nachod castle, CZ
• fürstenstein castle - zamek książ (ksiaz), PL with foto galery of the hochberg family (i liked the countess daisy von pless (of welsh (wales) origin) and the french cook most, if u asked me). interesting but only partly accessible were also hitler's unfinished tunnels directly below the castle. well, i was looking for the train with the stolen gold in the tunnels, but unfortunately with no luck at all 😅
  
• city frankenstein (zabkowice slaskie), PL ~ beautiful white town hall, a crooked tower + laboratory of dr. frankenstein
  
• kowary, PL ~ beach + restaurant island wy.spa at a small lake
  
• krummhübel im riesengebirge - karpacz in karkonosze / krkonose, PL
• schneekoppe - sniezka - snezka 1603m (CZ-PL border) ~ true winter experience (in early november) even if everywhere near there was still a nice autumn weather
  
• hirschberg - jelenia gora, PL
  
• schwarzenberg / erzgebirge, DE
  

enjoy few pictures 😄

3x castle fürstenstein (with hitler's unfinished tunnels) + 

2x city frankenstein (crooked tower + white town hall), PL

winter time at schneekoppe (snezka 1603m) at the czech-polish border (CZ-PL). 

due to heavy fog + snow i could see the summit just afterwards at home on the internet 😇

stone labyrinths in the area bledne skaly in NP gory stolowe

(NP table mountains, tafelberge) ~ kudowa-zdroj, PL

willa zuzana, kudowa-zdroj

hotel sanssouci (no worries) was 2x our former stay in kudowa

stone labyrinths bledne skaly, NP table mountains

szczeliniec (Große Heuscheuer), 919m, NP table mountains

radkow, PL

walbrzych (waldenburg), PL

fürstenstein castle - zamek książ (ksiaz)

R.I.P., poor victims of german fascism ...

 (countess) gräfin daisy von pless (daisy hochberg) was of welsh origin

palac margot, karpacz ~ charlottenheim in krummhübel, PL

karpacz - krummhübel

 this beautiful inn 'happy 7' some 10-15 km after the czech border was closed, 

so we had to cary our hungry stomachs to kowary

kowary, PL

nachod castle, CZ

kudowa-zdroj, skulls' chapel

the crooked tower in frankenstein (zabkowice slaskie)

karpacz - krummhübel

wooden norwegian church wang, karpacz

schneekoppe - sniezka - snezka, highest summit in sudeten with 1603m, PL-CZ border

 

krucze sklaly (rabensteine), karpacz

hirschberg - jelenia gora

maybe you will also enjoy my 2 videos.

#1 humans learning to fly 🐧

#2 fall means that leaves fall down, doesn't it? and yes, in czech and polish is november called listopad, which directly means 'leaves fall down' 🍂

more pictures here.