Friedrichstein Palace - Aerial View
Friedrichstein may refer to: * Friedrichstein, former German name of Gęsiniec, a village in Poland * Friedrichstein, Gottschee German name of , a mountain peak and former castle of the Blagaj family in Kočevje, Slovenia * Friedrichstein Palace Friedrichstein Palace ( was a baroque palace near Königsberg, East Prussia. It was designed by Jean de Bodt, and constructed between 1709 and 1714. The palace was the main residence of the Dönhoff family. The palace was one of the so-calle ...

Gęsiniec
Gęsiniec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Strzelin, within Strzelin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. From 1867 to 1945, it was in Germany. It lies approximately south of Strzelin, and southwest of the regional capital Wrocław (formerly called Breslau). Gęsiniec was settled in 1750 by Hussites, whose religious faith was based on the writings of Jan Hus (ca. 1369–1415), a Czech religious reformer and priest who was burnt at the stake as a heretic. Its former name, Husinec, refers to the Hus′ birthplace. Historically, the town's residents had ethnic Czech roots. It is located in Silesia, a region once ruled by the Kingdom of Bohemia, and after 1526 part of the Habsburg Monarchy. Silesia was conquered by Prussia in the First Silesian War in 1742, codified by the Treaty of Hubertusburg in 1763, and the town became known as ''Hussinetz''. From 1813 to 1919, it was administered by the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia in the poli ...
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Blagaj Family
The Blagaj family or Blagay were a Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...n noble family, hereditary counts () that were a cadet branch of the medieval Babonić family, and named after their estate of Blagaj on the Sana in the 14th century. Over the course of the Croatian-Ottoman wars, they migrated to the northwest and by the end of the 16th century became part of Austrian and Slovenian nobility. They went extinct in the 19th century. The Babonić family divided their properties in 1313 and 1314 between brothers Stephen IV Babonić, Stjepan IV (d. 1316), John Babonić, Ivan (d. after 1334) and Radoslav II (). Radoslav received the town and estate of Blagaj (Blagay), and his sons Nikola III and Dujam stopped using the name Babonić, rather referring to themselves ...
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