Milkel Castle

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Le château en bref

On the northern edge of Milkel, in the municipality of Radibor, Milkel Castle is a Baroque residence surrounded by water and built on oak piles in wet ground. It goes back to a fortified residence around 1300 established by the von Metzradt family; oak piles uncovered in 2005 carry a felling date of 1302. Successive owners, including the von Ponickau, the Einsiedel and then the von Holnstein, enlarged it from the 14th to the 18th century; the north tower was added in 1719-1720 and the Rococo hall received its stucco decoration around 1750. After 1945 the castle served as a refugee camp, a trade-union school and then a Sorbian language school until 1993. Bought in 1998 by the entrepreneur Hermann Fuchs, it underwent fourteen years of restoration; it remains private property, while its park is open to visitors.