History
The castle in Karłowice (German: Kertzendorf, Karlsmarkt) was probably built in the middle of the 14th century on the initiative of the Tschammer knight’s family. Then it belonged to other Silesian families, and in 1565 it was bought by the dukes of Brzeg. In early modern times, the castle was rebuilt, erecting two palace houses in the seventeenth century and the third in the nineteenth century.
Architecture
The castle was built on the western, rather high bank of the Stobrawa River. In the Middle Ages, it had the form of a not very regular quadrangle. It consisted of peripheral walls and a cylindrical tower, partially protruding from the face of the south-eastern section of the wall. Next to it was a gate, later transformed into a gatehouse. The main residential house was located by the north-western wall, i.e. on the opposite side of the entrance to the courtyard.
Current state
Up to now, from the original complex, three sides of perimeter walls to a height of about 6 meters, and a tower with the upper part changed in the nineteenth century, has preserved. The main castle house was pulled down at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, putting in its place a building with a chapel. Currently castle is in private hands.
bibliography:
Leksykon zamków w Polsce, red. L.Kajzer, Warszawa 2003.