Bolt lock (castle)
| Bolt lock | ||
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 Ruins of the bolt lock |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1374 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Janowice Wielkie ( Jannowitz ) | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 51 '40 " N , 15 ° 54' 43" E | |
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The bolt lock (also Bolkoschloss , Bolzenstein , Polish Zamek Bolczów ) is located on the left bank of the Bober above Janowice Wielkie ( Jannowitz ), about 15 km southeast of Jelenia Góra ( Hirschberg ) in the north of the Landeshuter Ridge .
history
The Bolzenschloss Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1374. It belonged to the Duchy of Schweidnitz and was then owned by the knight Nikolaus Bolze. During the Hussite Wars it served as a retreat for the Hussites and was therefore destroyed by an army of Schweidnitz in 1433. 1517–1518 it was rebuilt by Hans von Burghaus . During the Thirty Years' War the castle was conquered and destroyed by the Swedes in 1645 and fell into ruin. In 1845 it was partially restored by Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Wernigerode auf Jannowitz in the romantic style.
Since 2008 the bolt lock and other castles and sights of the Hirschberg Valley have been part of the Hirschberg Valley Cultural Park ( Park Kulturowy Kotliny Jeleniogórskiej ).
Building
Two granite rock elevations were used to build the hilltop castle and connected by a wall. In the multi-sided inner courtyard, a four-sided keep with three floors was built in the east , and a rectangular residential tower in the west . Around 1550, a castle gate reinforced by a barbican was built in the course of the privacy wall in the southern courtyard .
literature
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 259.
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland Silesia . Munich Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 374f.
- Günther Grundmann : Castles, palaces and manor houses in Silesia (= architectural and art monuments of the German East . Volume 1 ). 1982, p. 81-82 .
