Davyd-Haradok Castle

Davyd-Haradok Castle (Belarusian: Давыд-Гарадоцкі замак) was a complex of wooden defensive and administrative structures that existed in the 14th–18th centuries in the town of David-Gorodok in the Stolin district of the Brest region of Belarus. From the middle of the 16th century it served as the centre of the Radziwiłł ordynacja of David-Gorodok.

It was built on Castle Hill on the site of an Old Russian citadel. In 1605 the castle had a log enclosure in the form of gorodni, roofed with shingle. On one stretch a palisade stood in its place. On the side of the entry into the castle from the town stood a gate tower without a roof. In addition, there were also old towers here and 5 small half-ruined turrets. On entering the castle from the side of the "courtyard" lying in front of it, one had to cross a long bridge which led to the exit gate with a drawbridge on chains.

In the early 1670s there were 2 castles in David-Gorodok surrounded by a new oaken enclosure, the "Upper" (Gorny) and the "Lower" (Dolny). The "Upper" castle was enclosed by a high rampart and surrounded by water, but there were no buildings on its territory apart from a kitchen: they had burnt down during the Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667.

Machine-translated from “Давид-Городокский замок” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Davyd-Haradok Castle ranks #5,869 of 7,044 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #34 of the 37 mapped in Belarus. Founded c. 1350, it is older than 56% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 557 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. See how Belarus compares in the castle statistics.

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