The expansion of the fortified manor in Starogard, existing for generations, takes place in the years 1717-21, when the field marshal at the Prussian court of Frederick William I and the mayor of the city of Szczecin, Adrian Bernard von Borck, erects a magnificent baroque palace in the Dutch style, and his son Heinrich Adrian in 1743 added a new wing covered with a mansard roof, which enabled the creation of a representative courtyard. A garden was established next to the palace, which was later transformed into a landscape park. Initially, access to the palace led through the manor farm and was surrounded on three sides by farm buildings (stables, barns (one was circular) and workshops), further on, in the form of wings, farm and residential buildings for servants were added, but the new owner (Philipp von Borck) decided such a solution too rural and removed the farm buildings close to the palace and set up a lawn in front of the building (on which the cannon was placed) to increase the representativeness of the manor. The main building (without the wings) had dimensions of 33×14 meters, and on the ground floor of the building there were 11 rooms, the largest of which are the hall and the garden room. Two-story wings of the palace were added to the main building, to which later transverse annexes were added, where square tower buildings were the accent. Today, only ruins remain of the palace and farm. The facility is secured and open to the public.
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