The Carp Pond

Orangery

Greenhouse-Warmhouse, Palm House, or, as various sources report, the Flower Shop - a place located east of the palace. It was directly across from Dorota's Retreat. The greenhouse, erected in the year one thousand eight hundred forty-eight, designed by an unknown creator or possibly the architectural advisor Versen, in an arcaded style with a central risalit, with the decor of a centrally located salon (late classicism), was a winter garden under glass and an outdoor garden with numerous lawns and sculptures. The building functioned as a storage for orange and lemon trees, which during the spring-summer period were placed outside the palm house in the courtyard and palace driveway. Significantly remodeled in the years one thousand eight hundred seventy-seven, one thousand eight hundred seventy-eight, the building served as a place for exhibiting ornamental plants grown in the princely nursery with a special arrangement of plants: in winter with camellias, azaleas, and rhododendrons, and delicate ones from the cold zone, while in summer with deciduous plants and flowers of all kinds. A peculiar feature of the palm house was the enormous fan palm, considered one of the largest in Europe. After the year one thousand eight hundred eighty-nine, it was removed due to a lack of conditions for further cultivation. The palm house building has not survived to the present day. Continuing further, we encounter the Carp Pond from the north side and the Fisherman's Hut.

The Fisherman's Cottage

The Fisherman's Cottage, or rather a gazebo, a garden pavilion, with numerous flowerbeds and wooden sculptures, as well as wall paintings in the background, have not survived to this day. It was established after the year one thousand eight hundred forty-eight. Oskar Teichert wrote in the year one thousand eight hundred fifty-eight: "This charming empire of flowers." At its foot, that is, on the banks of the Carp Pond, which were fortified with numerous field stones and reinforced with the planting of trees and deciduous shrubs, they created a romantic setting for the cascading water. Two years later, behind the cottage, a granary and a new princely mill were built. Currently, the "Młynówka" guesthouse is under renovation. At the initiative of Prince Louis Napoleon, the son of Duchess Dorota, in the year one thousand eight hundred eighty, the pavilion was thoroughly rebuilt and significantly expanded. It served people as a shelter from the rain during walks in the park, to anglers, so they could fish safely. They could also cool down in it. Sometimes on holidays and on various occasions, after opening the park by Louis Napoleon, an orchestra or local bands played there. Also from here, looking north, we see the monumental plane tree and in the distance, on Iron Street, the Saint Dorota Hospital Complex, the former hospital funded for the city's residents between the years one thousand eight hundred fifty-one and one thousand eight hundred fifty-eight by the Duchess, in the classicist style, designed by Leonard Dorst von Schatzberg. It is currently restored and houses the State Music School of the first and second degrees in Żagań.

The Carp Pond.

The Carp Pond is now a cooling place with a fountain in the middle and a cottage where numerous duck families can take refuge, and in winter also swans. Around it grow numerous plane trees, now monument trees, edible chestnut, tulip tree, and Siberian pine.