Oświęcim Castle

Oświęcim Castle (Polish: Zamek w Oświęcimiu) is a castle raised in the Medieval Ages on the top of a hill, on the right bank of the River Soła in Oświęcim.

The castle comprises a thirteenth-century early-Gothic defence tower covered by a roof, a two-floor building built around a courtyard (with the old wing from the beginning of the sixteenth century) and additional connections between the wings built in 1929–31. Most of the fortifications around the castle were destroyed due to the changing river course of the River Soła.

On the top of the hill where the castle is located there are remains of the fortifications. There are two tunnels located underneath the castle, the older (built before 1914) and the second which was excavated by the Germans (1940–1944). The tunnels were used as bunkers.

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

Oświęcim Castle ranks #3150 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #101 of the 217 mapped in Polonia. Fundado en 1929 — uno de los 127 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XX. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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