The Palace of the Field Marshals in Janowice

In the Middle Ages, Janowice was a noble estate, obliged to provide natural tribute. The first mentions of the village date back to around 1335-1341 when it was mentioned in a document concerning the neighboring village of Redkowice. In this document, Dietrich von Altenburg, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, mentions the nobleman Jaske from Janowice. In 1516, Claus von Jannewitz was declared the heir of Janowice by the Pomeranian Duke Bogusław X. In 1658, the estate was owned by Heinrich and Lorentz von Jannewitz. This family leased Janowice until around 1700. The next owner of the village was the field marshal von Natzmer, who in 1739 erected a Baroque, three-winged palace in Janowice. He did not have any descendants, so after his death in 1739, the estate was acquired by the von Czapski family. In the next stage, the estate was acquired by the von Osten family from Pomerania, who in the first half of the 19th century rebuilt the palace in the neoclassical style. The palace of the field marshals, whose history is connected with the fate of two Prussian commanders, was designed as a three-winged, symmetrical, two-story building with a ceremonial courtyard open to the southeast. The facade of the central wing is decorated with a false avant-corps topped with a pediment. The garden elevation of this wing has a similar avant-corps, preceded by a terrace accessed by double-flight stairs. The surrounding old trees create a park covering an area of 10 hectares, in which there are nine monumental trees.