page_title: Świerklaniec
section_title: New Castle
hierarchical_section_title: Świerklaniec / Palaces and gardens of Świerklaniec / New Castle
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Eingangsfront des neuen Schlosses in Świerklaniec/Neudeck mit dem Eingangsportal. Die Donnersmarcksche Residenz war wichtigster Bestandteil der Schlossanlage. Sie brannte 1945 aus und wurde 1961 abgerissen. English: The entrance of the new palace in Świerklaniec with the gate. It was the most important part of the three palaces there of the Donnersmarck family. It was burned down in 1945 and pulled down in 1961
context_page_description: Świerklaniec is a village in Tarnowskie Góry County, in the Silesian Voivodeship of southwestern Poland. Formerly, from 1975—1998, Świerklaniec was a part of the Katowice Voivodeship.
context_section_description: Carl Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck (1772–1864) largely increased the family possessions around Neudeck and had the Old Castle rebuilt in a Tudor Revival style. His son, the industrial magnate Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck (1830-1916) had the New Castle erected from 1868 onwards, modelled on his Château de Pontchartrain near Paris. The construction was finished under the management of Hector Lefuel, chief architect of the Louvre Palace, until 1876
  The historic Neudeck landscape park then contained the impressive palatial complex and the extensive English landscape garden with the Cavalier Palace (Kavalierspalast) erected in 1906. Emperor Wilhelm II stayed several times at Schloss Neudeck, both for hunting and applying for credit. He elevated Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck to the noble rank of a prince (Fürst) in 1901. After World War I and the Upper Silesia plebiscite, Świerklaniec joined the Second Polish Republic. Nevertheless, the Donnersmarcks retained their possessions and from 1922 to 1937, the former Swiss president Felix Calonder, as chairman of the mixed German-Polish commission, resided at the Cavalier Palace to supervise the execution of the Upper Silesian Convention.
caption: New Castle
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