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The palace stands in the park, which was
originally built in 1857 in the Neo-renaissance style by
Apolinary Gajewski and then rebuilt for the new owner Stefan
Mycielski in 1911 in the Neo-classical style by the architect
Roger Sławski. The palace was burnt in 1945 and rebuilt
in the years 1960-62 as a tourist hostel (without reproducing
the antique interiors). The magnificent building has the
projection of elongated rectangle and it is covered with
the ridge roof, hidden behind the baluster attic. The front
facade has been adorned with the six-column portico of pseudo
- Ionic order closed with a triangular tympanum at the top.
The tympanum has on its surface the shields with the coats
of arms of Dołęga and Korzbok families.
The palace park (17,76 ha) is laid by the
Wolsztyńskie Lake. It was established on the turn
of the XVII century in the vicinity of the palace. Primarily
the park had regular foundation after which the linden alley
and the line of elms in the Western side of the park have
remained. At the moment the park has landscape features.
In the park there are many monumental trees, amongst other
oaks of the circumference up to about 460 cm (the thickest
one grows near the palace), beeches up to 360 cm in circumference,
ashes up to 350 cm, a Canadian poplar of 520 cm and a Japanese
gingko tree of 160 cm in circumference. Many of the park
trees are wreathed by ivies.
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On one of the oaks (about 450 cm in circumference,
growing in north-western part of the park) the heads
of Medusa and Faun were sculptured by Martin Rozek
The boughs on which they were placed got withered,
so the sculptures were transferred to the museum in
1994, and their copies were placed there instead.
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By the lake in the park there is a beach, a natural swimming pool, and a new magnificent platform.
The Wolsztyńskie Lake (124 ha in area), the smaller
of the lakes over which Wolsztyn lies, has an elongated
shape and the shore line of about 7475 m in length, most
of which is afforested. The Dojca river flows through the
lakes. In the Southern part there is a large peninsula (which
is included in the area of the palace park), and an elongated,
entirely afforested islet emerges in the middle of the reservoir
(1,3 ha). The banks of the lake is the place of nesting
of numerous rare and extinction - endangered species of
birds, amongst others: the black tern (Chlidonias niger),
the grebe (Podiceps nigricollis), the Remiz pendulinus,
the blackhead (Aythia fuligula) and the mute swan (Cygnus
olor).
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