Skrzynka jest częścią projektu "Geocachingowa Obwodnica Wrocławia" wzdłuż żółtego szlaku dookoła Wrocławia im. dr Bronisława Turonia
PL:
Zamek w Leśnicy – dawny zamek i rezydencja książęca w Leśnicy, powstały w 1132 roku jako gródek obronny, od tego czasu wielokrotnie niszczony i przebudowywany. Po włączeniu księstwa wrocławskiego w skład królestwa Czech zamek w okresie 1339-1945 stał się rezydencją bogatych rodów mieszczan wrocławskich. Podczas działań wojennych II wojny światowej nie został zniszczony. Po pożarze w 1953 roku, odbudowany i przebudowany na potrzeby domu kultury bez zachowania wystroju i wyposażenia wnętrz. Obecnie mieści się w nim Centrum Kultury „Zamek”.
Wraz z zabytkowym parkiem tworzy zespół pałacowo-parkowy. Zamek jest budowlą murowaną z cegły, tynkowaną, dwuskrzydłową, trójkondygnacyjną, podpiwniczoną. Wokół pałacu znajduje fosa z tworzącymi taras fortyfikacjami bastejowymi z ambrazurami. W piwnicach znajdują się relikty zamku z 1271 roku.
ENG:
This cache was created to give you the opportunity to visit a amazing Castle, surrounded by a great garder, ideal to spring/summer pic-nic.
How to find the Castle?
From Wroclaw, city center I advise you to catch the tram 10 or 20 straight from Rynek to Lesnica.
The train takes more or less 30min, get out is the last tram station.
From there to the Castle main door is only 160meters.
The first castle was built in Lesnica most likely already in 1132, being the prince's quarters. On December 7, 1201 Boleslaw Wysocki died here. He was a Silesian prince, the ancestor of a branch of Wroclaw princes ruling this area until 1335. The castle of Lesnica was at that time an often-visited prince residence. Among the visitors were: Henry the Bearded with his wife Jadwiga (St. Silesian Jadwiga) and Henry the Sacred. After the death of the last of the Wroclaw's Piast dynasty, Henry VI, the Lesnica properties went under the Czech rule in 1335. Their new owner, the king of the Czech Jan Luksemburski, sold Lesnica and the castle to a Wroclaw bourgeois Gysko de Reste for 300 Prague groszes in 1339. Since that time the Lesnica castle had been constantly changing owners – this period lasted for 700 years.
During its history of nearly 900 years the castle hosted a vast number of royal family members, princes and nobles, the figures known from the pages of history. Among others, persons important for the Silesian history, such as Boleslaw the Tall, Henry the Bearded, his wife Jadwiga and Henry the Sacred, the Czech and German king (later emperor) Carl IV was here in 1348, in 1563 Maximilian II (the emperor during the years 1564-1576) and in 1611 – Maciej II. Before the battle of Lutynia (in 1757) the palace became the headquarters of the command of the Austrian army led by prince Carl from Lorraine and after the battle (December 5) the Prussian king Frederic II was here and returned several times. During the Napoleonian days and the siege of Wroclaw (1806-7) the castle was the quarters of the French and Bayern troops. In 1808 prince Hieronymus Bonaparte lived here and in 1813 marshal Michel Ney.
During the second world war the palace was not destroyed. In 1958 the building was secured and during the years 1959-1963 some works were conducted in order to transform the palace into a cultural center. In 1962 it was put into the Wroclaw's register of monuments. After 1974 the adaptation of the basements and the catacombs was conducted and in 1995 the building's facade was renovated.
Currently the castle of Lesnica is the quarters of “Zamek” Cultural Center.