Mierczyce is a large agricultural village situated along the Wierzbiak River, on the border between the Jawor Plain and the Strzegom Hills. During the Lusatian culture period, there was already a settlement on the nearby Zamkowa Góra (Castle Hill), expanded in the early medieval period and destroyed in the first half of the 11th century. In the 13th century, the village was established in its current location. From the late 16th century until the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, Mierczyce was owned by the von Schweinichen family, who led to the development of the village and the construction of a baroque palace with a garden. The local church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary originated from the 14th century as a Gothic building and was reconstructed in the Baroque style in the 18th century. On the walls, there are stone tombstones, Renaissance and Baroque, including the rich epitaph of Hans von Schweinichen from the late 17th century.
The palace was built as a Renaissance defensive manor, and the remnants of this are the moat with an irregular course, over which two stone bridges were thrown. It was rebuilt twice, and in its current form, it has a Baroque character. The partially preserved landscape park is notable for its impressive plane trees. On the Zamkowa Mountain, to the east of the village, there are remnants of an early medieval hillfort. The square in the hillfort covers an area of about 1.7 hectares and is surrounded by a distinct oval-shaped earth embankment. At the foot of the hillfort, there is a developed resting place, and from the edge of the cultivated fields reaching the embankment, extensive views of the surroundings unfold.
Description: Piotr Migoń