There is a residential tower built over the river Ślęza in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Originally had two floors, in the sixteenth century the third, which is crowned with an attic. In the second decade of the seventeenth century, the tower has been added on the south side residential wing and his contact with the original building erected in the square staircase turret. 
Another reconstruction took place in the eighteenth century, a northern wing then, in the nineteenth century, the oldest building team raised an additional fourth floor. 
In 1977, he was cut eighteenth-century northern wing, now the building is neglected, but outside of the north wing - entirely preserved.

Tower of Ślęza

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Bearded Henry had here in the thirteenth century established, it was a city located in the marshy area on Bystrica. After 1290 years take over Wroclaw city burghers. In the first half of the fifteenth century, probably on the site of the castle was built just a stone castle. Between 1520 and 1550 the expansion was converted into a residence in the Renaissance style. Fortified wall with bastions at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At the mansion was rebuilt again in the first half of the eighteenth century, this time in the Baroque style. The design of this reconstruction was created by Krzysztof Hackner. Traces of the original Gothic assumptions, however, are preserved in the walls of the palace. Today it houses the cultural center.

Castle in Lesnice

Wojnowice are mentioned in sources from the thirteenth century, in the fifteenth century there existed defense establishment bourgeois families of Wroclaw. At the beginning of the sixteenth century the property was in the hands of the family Schebitzów and shortly afterwards in 1513 Schebitz Nicholas ascended the northern wing of the castle. After 1530 years there have been here a four-assumption. Built of brick castle has a plan similar to that of a square with sides of 22x24 meters, the entry was placed in the north wing and the whole was surrounded by walls placed directly on the moat by a drawbridge over. The courtyard was well placed. 
In 1537 years the good wojnowickie became the property Boner, who ruled them for 1576 years. In 1560 James Boner during the reconstruction gave the castle Renaissance character. Construction gained then made ​​of sandstone window frames and portal gate, roofs crowned with stepped gables and arches erected in the courtyard. At the gate stands the slender square tower. In this form, the castle has survived to the present, the reconstruction carried out in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has not changed its appearance. As a result of the reconstruction of the nineteenth century, the drawbridge was replaced by a brick arcade. 
During the Second World War the castle was damaged. Then he was used as the seat of the Association of Art Historians, which in the seventies and eighties of the last century odremontowało it.