Castle
Zamek w Przegorzałach
Jodłowa 13, 30-251 Kraków
Wartime castle modeled on Rhineland chateaus, built on a hilltop above the Vistula for a Nazi governor.
This guide to the castle at Przegorzały in Kraków follows architect Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, who had renovated Wawel Castle and led the city's Academy of Fine Arts, and the December night in 1940 when the new German district governor, Otto Wächter, wanted his hilltop villa. It traces what Szyszko-Bohusz was then forced to design in the villa's place, and how the unfinished building later passed to Hans Frank and Heinrich Himmler. Listen while facing the older round tower beside the newer wing, the one structure that predates the whole story.
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