

Want to spend the night in a castle? It’s surprisingly more affordable than you’d think! Get more information on how you can rent a castle in North Carolina from Smithmore Castle’s Airbnb listing and its official website. This calculated to an average of $478 per night for two people to rent an entire 12,000-square-foot castle in North Carolina. The $300 cleaning fee, service fee, and taxes added another $589, for a total of $1,435. For two people staying three nights, the room rate per night was only $282 for the entire castle, for a three-night total of $846. The room rates are calculated based upon the number of people (which makes sense!). However, checking the reservations to rent a castle in North Carolina, we did a quick faux reservation to see how much it would cost, including all fees, for three nights. It’s important to note that rates and terms are, of course, always subject to change at a moment’s notice. There is also a minimum stay of three nights. That fee is $300, regardless of the number of nights you stay. Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the complex was occupied by the Wehrmacht.Obviously, with such a huge space, the cleaning fee is larger than a normal Airbnb rental. After the war and a plebiscite in 1921, the town became part of Poland. Between 18, reconstruction of the palace was directed by the French architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur.ĭuring the First World War, the palace, then in the Prussian Province of Silesia, at times hosted William II, German Emperor, and there are pictures on display of him together with Generals such as Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg discussing military operations. In 1848 the Duchy of Pless became a Principality, ruled by the Hochberg-Fuerstenstein family until 1939.


In 1742 Pless became part of Brandenburg-Prussia. This gave Telemann an opportunity to study Polish and Moravian folk music, which fascinated and inspired him. In 1705, Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann became Kapellmeister to Erdmann II of Promnitz, privy Councillor to Augustus II the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, and spent considerable time at the Pszczyna Palace when the latter's court summered there. It was subsequently rebuilt in a more baroque style. In 1548, the palace was sold to the noble Promnitz family from Saxony and given a Renaissance appearance, which it lost after a fire. From this time on, it also was part of the Bishopric of Kraków. The city belonged to the historical region of Lesser Poland until 1177, when it became part of the Duchy of Ratibor. In the early the Middle Ages, Pszczyna was a stronghold of the Piast dynasty and several dukes of Poland. In 2009 it was voted as one of the "Seven Architectural Wonders of the Silesian Voivodeship" by the Silesian authorities and is often described as one of the most beautiful castle residences in Poland. The castle became owned by the state after the death of the last Prince of Pless, Hans Heinrich XV in 1936. In its history the castle was a residence of Silesian and Polish Piast nobles, then the German von Promnitz noble clan (mid-16th to mid-18th centuries) and later the German von Pless family. The Classicist modernization transformed the complex into what is usually described a palace. During the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, the exterior of the castle was partially changed into a Baroque-Classical style. Constructed as a castle in 13th century or earlier, in a Gothic architectural style, it was rebuilt in a Renaissance style in the 17th century. Pszczyna Castle (Polish: Zamek w Pszczynie, German: Schloss Pleß), also known in English as Pless Castle, is a classical-style palace in the city of Pszczyna (English: Pless) in southwestern Poland.
