Czersk Castle
| Castle of the Mazovian princes in Czersk | ||
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 Entrance gate |
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| Alternative name (s): | Zamek książąt mazowieckich w Czersku | |
| Creation time : | 1388 | |
| Castle type : | Moated castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Czersk | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 57 '30 " N , 21 ° 14' 3" E | |
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The ruins of the castle of the Mazovian princes in Czersk (Polish: Zamek książąt mazowieckich w Czersku ), in short Castle (in) Czersk , is located in Czersk in the powiat Piaseczyński on the Vistula in the Masovian Voivodeship in Poland . The moated castle is located on the left bank of the Vistula on a hill.
history
The castle ruins that exist today are based on a brick building from the 14th century. Until then there had been a wooden fortress at this point. The ruin consists of two round towers and a Gothic angular tower, the latter serving as an entrance. The eastward round tower was used as a prison. Access was from the wall tour, from here the prisoners were lowered through a hole onto the floor of the tower, which was 10 meters below. The west tower housed the weapons and ammunition chambers. All the towers had wooden pointed roofs. The parts of the wall connecting the towers, originally 7 to 8 meters high, have been partially removed down to the ground. The foundations of the walls are up to 5.5 meters in the ground, the thickness of the walls is 1.80 to 1.85 meters. Presumably under the Polish Queen Bona , wife Sigismund I , several castle-like buildings were built in the castle. After Bona left the country, the structural decline of the castle began.
literature
- Bohdan Guerquin: Zamki w Polsce. Warszawa: Arkady, 1984, p. 132-134. ISBN 83-213-3239-0 .
- Leszek Kajzer: Leksykon zamków w Polsce. Warszawa: Arkady, 2001, p. 140-143.
- Agnieszka Sypek, Robert Sypek: Zamki i warownie ziemi mazowieckiej. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Trio, 2002, s. 49-53. ISBN 83-88542-34-6 .
- Tadeusz Zagrodzki: Czersk. Zamek i miasto historyczne. Warszawa: TOnZ, 1996, s. 27-46. ISBN 83-902793-8-X .
