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Przewodziszowice Castle

Poland · 14th century

Founded
c. 1350
Heritage status
immovable monument in Poland
Location
Żarki
Coordinates
50.6447°, 19.3947°
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Przewodziszowice Castle in Poland
Photo: Jerzy Strzelecki · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

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.

Text adapted from “Przewodziszowice Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Przewodziszowice Castle ranks #5,537 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #206 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1350, it is older than 54% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 758 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. 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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