Located on a rocky protrusion of a slope in the valley of the Ścinawka River between the Owl and Table Mountains, the historic establishment in Sarny (German: Scharfeneck) is one of the most architecturally interesting historic palace and farm complexes within the current borders of Lower Silesia.

In the Middle Ages, a knight’s tower was erected in Sarny, about which little is known. Its remains should be searched for in the basement of the palace and gate house, whose corridor and gate passage most closely correspond to the ground floor form of the knight’s tower. In 1590. Fabian von Reichenbach completes the construction of a Renaissance manor house with fortifications. On the first floor, the already archaizing Gothic-like cross vaults survive to this day without transformation.

The castle’s original layout included a manor house, a journeyman’s house (now a row house) and a gate house, surrounded by a curtain wall with shooting galleries. In addition to the castle, a walled farmstead and a small summer manor house were built in the park.

The castle was transformed and reopened over the following centuries, when calmer times followed. The mansion was rebuilt in 1660 as a palace, the journeyman’s house was expanded to serve as a palace wing.

The castle and manor complex also includes a historic park with 10 natural monuments – some 300-year-old pedunculate oaks.

For most of its documented existence, the foundation belonged to the wealthy family of Counts von Götzen, from which many of Klodzko’s Starosts descended. It was at Scharfeneck Castle in 1866 that Gustav Adolf Count von Götzen, later colonial governor of German East Africa, was born.

The Götzen family brought Scharfeneck to prosperity, expanding the mansion, adding a summer palace as well as, in the 18th century, the Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk, richly decorating it with polychrome. After 1945 and the renaming of Scharfeneck to Sarny, the complex became the property of the State Treasury. After the liquidation of the State Agricultural Farms, the building deteriorated badly, standing on the verge of collapse.

In 2014, the palace was protected from collapse and renovation of the cordegarden and design work began.

In 2017, the gate house was put into operation after a major renovation. The chapel of St. John Nepomucene, with a painting from 1738, is open to the public daily.

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