Grodziec Castle

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Grodziec Castle
Gröditzberg Fortress around 1825, on the right in the picture Gröditzberg Castle

The castle Grodziec (German Gröditzburg , also Gröditzberg ) is a castle complex in Grodziec (German Gröditz ) in the rural community Zagrodno ( Adelsdorf ) in the powiat Złotoryjski ( Goldberg district ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . It lies on a 389 m high basalt cone on the northern edge of the Bober-Katzbach Mountains . Historically, the castle belonged to the Duchy of Liegnitz .

history

In 10./11. In the 19th century there was a Slavic rampart on the basalt cone , which was built in the then wooded area to secure the western border of the Duchy of Silesia . In a document from Pope Hadrian IV dated April 23, 1155 a castellany "Godiuce" is mentioned, which probably refers to the Gröditzburg. In 1175, Duke Boleslaus I issued the letter of foundation for the Leubus Monastery in “castrum Grodiz” . When towns under German law were founded in the 13th century, the remote Gröditzburg lost its importance to Haynau and Goldberg . In 1320 Duke Boleslaus III pledged it . the then probably already dilapidated Gröditzburg to the knight Swolo Busewoy (Polish Budziwój ).

In 1473 Duke Friedrich I of Liegnitz redeemed the castle. He then began to rebuild and expand the castle, which was probably damaged in the Hussite Wars . His son Friedrich II commissioned the Görlitz master builder Wendelin Roßkopf with the renovation of the castle in the Renaissance style . Because of the danger posed by the Turkish wars , the castle was secured by towers, walls and moats. In addition, a bailey was built that filled the entire plateau. In the 16th century, the dukes of Liegnitz often stayed at the castle, where they held festivals and tournaments. The castle captain Hans von Schweinichen left diary entries with the debauchery of Duke Heinrich XI.

In the Thirty Years' War took Wallenstein one the Grodziec, by the Imperial was held until the 1646th However, it was occupied by the Swedes in 1642/43, who partially destroyed the castle complex.

After the death of the last Silesian Piast Georg Wilhelm I in 1675, his duchies fell to the Crown of Bohemia by reversion .

In 1708, Imperial Count Johannes Wolfgang (also Hans Wolf ) of Frankenberg on Alt Warthau acquired the rule of Gröditz, who built the new Gröditzberg Castle below Gröditzburg in 1718–1727 .

The Gröditzburg has been a popular tourist attraction since around 1830, which is why the historicizing reconstruction in the neo-Gothic style began. From 1906 to 1908, Willibald von Dirksen, the owner of the estate of Gröditz, carried out security work and additions under the direction of the architect and castle researcher Bodo Ebhardt . In 1908 the festive opening took place in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which is still evidenced by a plaque today.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 38.1 ″  N , 15 ° 45 ′ 33.2 ″  E