Przewodziszowice Castle

Przewodziszowice Castle - brick fortress ruins, located on the peripheries of the former village of Przewodziszowice (now part of the town of Żarki), on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland.

Przewodziszowice Castle
Przewodziszowice Castle
LocationŻarki, Silesian Voivodeship, in Poland
Coordinates50°38′41″N 19°23′41″E / 50.64472°N 19.39472°E / 50.64472; 19.39472
Built14th century
Architectural style(s)Gothic
Przewodziszowice Castle is located in Poland
Przewodziszowice Castle
Location of the Przewodziszowice Castle in Poland

History

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The fortress was raised in the fourteenth, or on the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth-century, as commanded by the Polish monarch Casimir III the Great, or Silesian duke Vladislaus II of Opole.[1] Together with the Suliszowice Fortress, the fortresses served as a propounded flank of what now remains of the castle ruins located in the small forest osada of Ostrężnik Gmina Janów. In the fifteenth-century, the castle reserved as the residence for knight-highwayman Mikołaj Kornicz Siestrzeniec, known as "Siestrzeniec". According to a legend, the knight hid his loot in stone fissures or the castle well.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Strażnica Przewodziszowicka - Baza Topo Portalu Górskiego". topo.portalgorski.pl. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Zapraszamy do Miasta i Gminy Żarki". www.umigzarki.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 September 2017.