New Grodno Castle

The New Castle (Belarusian: Новы замак, romanized: Novy zamak, Lithuanian: Gardino Naujoji pilis) in Grodno, Belarus is a royal palace of Augustus III of Poland and Stanisław August Poniatowski where the famous Grodno Sejm took place in 1793. New Grodno Castle is 116 metres (381 ft) above sea level.

The royal residence was built on the high bank of the Neman River at a little distance from the Old Grodno Castle which had suffered great dilapidation in the aftermath of the Swedish occupation in the early 18th century. The two castles are joined by a 300-year-old arch bridge.

The palace compound was designed by Carl Frederick Pöppelmann. Construction was carried out between 1734 and 1751 under the supervision of several other Saxon architects, including Johann Friedrich Knöbel and Joachim Daniel von Jauch. The palace was completed under the direction of Giuseppe de Sacco in 1789 and remained home for King Stanisław II August until 1797.

Texto adaptado de «New Grodno Castle» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.

New Grodno Castle ranks #1857 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #11 of the 27 mapped in Bielorrusia. Fundado en 1789, más antiguo que el 16% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 360 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XVIII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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