Sławięcice Palace

Sławięcice Palace (Polish: Pałac Sławięcice, German: Schloss Slawentzitz) was a former stately home in Sławięcice, today a district of Kędzierzyn-Koźle in the Opole Voivodeship of southern Poland. The site originated as a Piast stronghold mentioned in the fourteenth century and later became the centre of a large estate. In the early eighteenth century a baroque palace with formal gardens was erected for the von Hoym family. After its destruction, the estate passed by marriage to the Princes von Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, who in 1836 built a new residence in a late-classical style with elements of the Italian Baroque.

The new palace, enlarged in 1861 by Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen, was one of the most imposing noble seats in Upper Silesia. It stood within an extensive landscape park containing pavilions, an orangery, fountains, and a mausoleum. Owing to its scale and architectural refinement, contemporaries referred to it as the “Silesian Versailles.”

Until 1945, the property remained in Hohenlohe possession and served as a residence connected with their industrial enterprises in Silesia. The building was heavily damaged during the final months of the Second World War, subsequently plundered, and finally demolished in the 1970s. Of the palace itself only fragments of the portico survive, together with the historic park, which is protected as a cultural monument.