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Bąków is a village located in the Silesian Lowland, in the Kluczbork district, in the Kluczbork municipality. The Stobrawa river, a right tributary of the Oder, flows through it. The first preserved source information about Bąków comes from the mid-13th century. At the end of the 18th century, the owner of the village was Count Ernest Philip Elisabeth von Bethusy-Huc from Saxony, who bought further estates in the Olesno and Kluczbork districts from Francis von Gaschin, including the town of Olesno and the villages of Wojciechów, Maciejów, Paruszowice, and Dobiercice. In 1799, the count made Bąków the main residence of his family. The estate remained in the hands of his descendants until 1943. After World War II, it was entirely nationalized. The von Bethusy-Huc family built a neoclassical palace in the mid-19th century, the architecture of which refers to the designs of Carl F. Schinkel. The former residence is surrounded by a landscape park, and nearby, grange buildings have survived. The monuments of Bąków include the wooden church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the only pre-Reformation church in the Kluczbork municipality.