Drogosze Palace (Polish: Pałac rodu von Dönhoff w Drogoszach or Polish: Pałac w Drogoszach; German: Schloss Dönnhoffstädt) is a baroque palace in Drogosze, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland, constructed between 1710 and 1714.
[1][2] On land received from the Teutonic Order, a member of a Saxon noble family, Konrad von Wolffersdorff, founded a settlement in 1361, which he named Groß Wolfsdorf.
[3] Already at that time, there was a large deer park covering an area of 76 hectares, a gift from the Polish king John II Casimir Vasa (1609–1672).
[3] Count Friedrich von Dönhoff (1639–1696) married the last member from the Rautter family and subsequently acquired the Groß Wolfsdorf estate.
[3] A little later, in place of the previously existing mirror stairs, a wide representative driveway for carriages was built leading to the main entrance, decorated with fountains, flower pots and sculptures.
[2] Later, she married count Georg von Dohna-Lauck, transferring the property to the Dohna noble family.
[2] In 1863, Angélique Dönhoff's niece, countess Marianne zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, inherited the vast Dönhoffstadt estate.
[2] Her son was count Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, a prominent president of the German Reichstag and opponent of the Nazis, who also owned an estate in Silesia, named Kreppelhof.
When the southern part of East Prussia came under Polish administration after World War II, the palace was used as an agricultural school from 1954 to 1991.
The Dönhoffstädt library, two trucks filled with books, including two Egyptian papyrus scrolls and a guest book with notes from Napoleon Bonaparte and Emperor Wilhelm II, were given to the university of Toruń after World War II.
Above the entrance there is a colorful and richly decorated cartouche of the coat of arms of the Stolberg-Wernigerode family with the date 1902.
The site is surrounded by a landscape park, which has now lost its original composition and gently transitions into the forest.
In the park in the immediate vicinity of the palace, from the garden side, there is a large plaque commemorating the faithful servants of the estate and a monument to the Stolberg-Wernigrode family Remnants of the baroque garden, in the form of sandstone sculptures and vases, were preserved in the vicinity of the palace until 1945.