Heilsberg Castle
| Heilsberg Castle | ||
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 Heilsberg Castle |
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| Creation time : | 1350-1401 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | Well | |
| Standing position : | Episcopal Castle | |
| Place: | Lidzbark Warmiński | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 7 '32.7 " N , 20 ° 34' 58.3" E | |
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The Castle Heilsberg is a castle in what was then East Prussia City Heilsberg, today Lidzbark Warmiński . The castle served as the residence of the Warmia bishops until 1795 . Nicolaus Copernicus worked here from 1504 to 1510 as the personal physician of his uncle, the resident bishop Lukas Watzenrode .
history
In 1241 Heilsberg was conquered by the knights of the Teutonic Order. Since the place was lost again in the Second Prussian Uprising (1260–1274), Bishop Johann I von Meißen decided in 1350 to fortify it with a castle, which was built from 1350 to 1401 during the reign of Bishops Johann II. Stryprock and Heinrich III. Sorbom was built. Furthermore, in 1350 Johann I von Meißen moved the bishopric from Wormditt to Heilsberg.
After the First Partition of Poland in 1795, the empty castle complex was given up by Ignacy Krasicki . It initially served as a barracks. Later an orphanage and hospital was set up. A statue of St. Catherine was placed in the courtyard.
The greatest contribution to the preservation of the castle complex, which was originally supposed to be demolished, goes to Ferdinand von Quast and Karl Hauke. Although almost all of Heilsberg was destroyed in the Second World War, the castle complex remained almost intact.
Today it houses a regional museum.
literature
- Christofer Herrmann: Heilsberg in the context of the Warmian castle building. In: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces (ed.): Castles of church builders. (= Research on castles and palaces. Volume 6). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-422-06263-7 , pp. 223-230.
- Tomasz Torbus: The convent castles in the Teutonic Order of Prussia. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56358-0 .
