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Nearby is one of Europe's longest zip-wire and tree top agility courses. On the Czech side just 5 km away are 60 km of prepared mountain bike trails for experts to beginners. You can rent a top of the range mountain bike. There are some interesting small towns. And some wonderful swimming holes in old quarries. A car gives you independence, otherwise we shop every day and can take our guests to the town.
Otmuchow 6 km for provisions, or to the next village, Kałków 2 km — and we can lend you a bicycle. Depending on the time of year, there may be organic vegetables from our garden available, and our chickens usually produce enough eggs for us to share. We can buy local honey, unpasteurised milk, butter, venison, wild boar. We can order home-made bacon or sausages from a man in the village. We make jams and traditional pickles. Our chickens, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl and sheep wander where they want. Some guests like to buy a goose or some turkey for roasting.
Our turkey is a different experience from anything you will buy in a shop. The nearest airport is Wroclaw, a 75 minute drive. In a car, it is 5 hours from Vienna, Bratislava or Warsaw, 4 hours from Berlin, 3. A bus is quicker than train from Wroclaw, train is better from Katowice and Krakow.
We can meet you at Nysa station. On the Czech side Horni Hermanice there's a small train hourly departures which will take you off into the mountains, or on to Brno, Prague, Vienna or Budapest if you want. A lot of our guests come because they are taking a countryside break half way between city breaks in Prague or Berlin and Krakow.
Piotrowice Nyskie is an ideal place from where to experience the Polish and Czech countryside. History: the house is likely to have been built before , but is first mentioned as "Castro Petrowicz" Castle Peterwitz in - when it was probably a moated fortification, owned by a knight, with the duty to fight for the bishops when called upon. Quite likely it was destroyed by Hussite invaders from Bohemia in Most of the house dates from after , when it was in the ownership of a noble family called von Hundt. Recently discovered is a stunning and important painted ceiling in the ballroom, unique in Poland, dating from The chapel has artefacts from that date too, and still serves as the village church, the only such private chapel in Silesia, and an impressive baroque altar, just restored.
A picture on the ballroom ceiling of Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia, "The Winter Queen" suggests she may have visited in , when it's known she went to nearby Nysa with her husband Frederick V of Bohemia. The bishop left it to a nephew, then, in , Baron von Wimmersberg acquired it, and it stayed in the family until a later Baron lost it in a game of cards to his estate manager, Julius Lorenz in The Lorenz family owned the house until During Polish communist times the house was used by five families from the local collective farm, but was badly neglected.
Only since Anna and I started rescuing it from dereliction in has its beauty more become apparent. Conservation work continues, we think we are 10 years into a 20 year restoration, so be prepared for a little restoration work going on around you. If you are lucky, your visit might co-incide with work by a skilled conservationist.
As a side business, we also restore old cars in one of the barns. Old car people love it here. And we can make interesting commissions out of metal or wood if you have ideas. We have an upcycling business making things out of scrap metal. Sometimes our guests like them so much they buy them! There are plenty of action-adventure activities nearby, but the house is quiet, ideal for winding down from City stress. We find that many of our guests do a lot of sleeping.
It is an unusually peaceful place.
Show on map. Bedroom 1 - 3 single beds. It is a paradise for children — we have six — they can run around outside, meet the chickens and geese, or explore indoors and outdoors in a quiet, safe village. Jednak może nie do końca życia - przecież niebawem będę chciał tam powrócić na troszkę dłuższy pobyt i odpoczynek. Check your booking confirmation email to find your booking number and PIN. Rowerki wodne. It's sleepy, quiet, relaxing, a place to dissipate your city stress.
Our new guest flats - two of them, with fully equipped kitchens - are beautiful, and give you a sense of history when you stay, with exposed stonework, and old wooden beams. They have efficient, ecological modern wood burning stoves for winter heat. We burn our own wood.
We don't normally provide meals, but can do so if asked. Breakfast from our own eggs and with home-made bacon from the village is a treat. Children love it too. We have six, and they are so lucky to be growing up here. Detailed description of our accommodation With a bit of sharing, and using other rooms in the village, we can take a group of up to 30 people. All flats are heated by ecological wood-burning stoves. We use wood from our own trees.
Extra electric heaters, and gas heaters are available. On hot summer days, the house is very cool inside, as if there is air conditioning. Flat 1 Location: downstairs, off the internal courtyard. Bedroom 1: double bed Room 2: two single beds Room 3: a large living room with two double sofa beds Living area, kitchen, with underfloor heating and wood burning stove Marble bathroom with underfloor heating.
Separate toilet Faces West and looks over the pond Flat 2 Location: downstairs, off the internal courtyard. It has a view over the park. It has a wood burning stove, with gas and electric heaters if needed in winter, and underfloor heating in the bathroom History: this used to be the castle kitchen.
Room 2: a separate room through a door. The room can be completely separated from the apartment. Our unique bendy floor boards with oak from our own park. The Hobbit Room, we call it. Faces North and looks over the park Flat 3 Location: is not in the palace but in the building opposite, with a view onto the palace.
Décor is modern. Room 1: A large living room with two double sofa beds Room 2: A small bedroom with a double bed Kitchen with a table and a nice view of the palace. There is a traditional wood burning cooker, and a gas cooker The bathroom and toilet are together. There is a washing machine Other rooms The Master Bedroom: Upstairs in the palace is a very large bedroom with a large bathroom en suite with a huge bath. Parquet floor.
There is some antique furniture The Safe Room: through double doors from the master bedroom is the Safe Room, so called because it has the old house safe in it. Called the Sun-dial Room because it is on the corner of the house with the sun-dial.
W Otmuchowie są dziesiątki singli, którzy - tak jak Ty - szukają nowych znajomości i chętnie umawiają się na randki. Wielu z nich zaznaczyło na swoich profilach. W Otmuchowie są dziesiątki mężczyzn, którzy - tak jak Ty – szukają nowych znajomości i chętnie umawiają się na randki. Wiele z nich to osoby, które są.
Unfurnished, but we often put extra beds in it for big parties. Parquet floor, high ceilings with historic wooden beams. The Sun-dial Room is next to the upstairs kitchen The upstairs kitchen is a very large kitchen with historic beams, original oak parquet. Formerly it was a grand salon.
Guests can use this kitchen too, and up to people can dine in the ballroom. In the ballroom is an excellent Yamaha grand piano, the best instrument in the region and much loved by our visiting musicians.
The room has a good acoustic for all sorts of music making and we often hold concerts there. There is also a lot of clean floor space in the attic. Members of a large party can camp up there. Popular with children… There is dormitory space in the barns too There are other rooms in the village. Single and double rooms in private houses. And there is an empty, unmodernised flat opposite that we can use with three rooms and some beds in each and space for airbeds.