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 | |
|---|---|
1.jpg) Przewodziszowice Castle | |
| Location | Żarki, Silesian Voivodeship, in Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°38′41″N 19°23′41″E / 50.64472°N 19.39472°E |
| Built | 14th century |
| Architectural style(s) | Gothic |
  Location of the Przewodziszowice Castle in Poland | |
History
editThe 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
edit- ^ "Strażnica Przewodziszowicka - Baza Topo Portalu Górskiego". topo.portalgorski.pl. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ "Zapraszamy do Miasta i Gminy Żarki". www.umigzarki.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 September 2017.