Gollub Castle
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 Gollub Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Golau Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1293-1310 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | Well | |
| Standing position : | Ordensburg and cathedral | |
| Place: | Golub-Dobrzyń | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 6 '54 " N , 19 ° 2' 56" E | |
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The Gollub Castle was an order castle of the Teutonic Order in the Kulmer Land (later West Prussia ) in the place Gollub, today Golub-Dobrzyń . It served to secure the Drewenz River , which was the border river.
history
In 1254 Gollub was handed over by the German Order to the Bishop of Włocławek , but it came back into possession of the Order in 1293. From 1293 to 1310 the castle was built for security.
With the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the castle along with the entire Prussian royal share was given to Poland. Princess Anna Wasa of Sweden had the castle rebuilt as a residence from 1616 to 1623 in the Renaissance style.
From 1773 to 1920 the castle with the place Gollub belonged to Prussia . After the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the castle and town became part of the newly founded Second Polish Republic .
The Dehio-Handbuch Nordostdeutschland from 1906 mentioned in “Golub” (sic!) The “Ordensschloß” as “relatively well preserved ruin”. Today the castle has been completely restored and houses a hotel and a museum .
The place Dobrzyń on the other side of the river belonged to the country Dobrzyń , named after another Dobrzyń located on the Vistula . After temporary occupation by the Teutonic Order this part belonged Kujawiens the Treaty of Kalisz (1343) to the second partition of Poland (1793) to the Kingdom of Poland , after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to Congress Poland , later Russian Empire .
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literature
- Tomasz Torbus: The convent castles in the Teutonic Order of Prussia . Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56358-0 , pp. 137-144, 414-426, doi: 10.11588 / diglit.43361 .