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.

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. 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.

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Przewodziszowice Castle ranks #5,544 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #203 of the 386 mapped in Poland. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Częstochowa, 27 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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