Nowy Sącz Castle
| Nowy Sącz royal castle | ||
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 Blacksmith's Bastion in Nowy Sącz Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Zamek Królewski w Nowyn Sącz | |
| Creation time : | 1350 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Nowy Sącz | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 37 '44 " N , 20 ° 41' 21" E | |
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The royal castle Nowy Sącz ( German Burg Neu Sandez ) is located in a park in the town of Nowy Sącz in the Polish Lesser Poland Voivodeship above the rivers Dunajec and Kamienica . It is one of the Dunajec castles that guarded the medieval trade route from Poland to Hungary along the Dunajec and Poprads .
history
Nowy Sącz Castle was built at the beginning of the 14th century and was expanded during the reign of King Casimir the Great 1350-1360. After a fire in 1611, the Lubomirski magnate family, the local Staroste , had the castle rebuilt in the Renaissance style. The buildings contained a total of 40 halls and were decorated with attics .
From 1772 the castle and town belonged to the Austrian crown land of Galicia . Fires in the 18th century and a flood in 1813 led to the castle becoming a ruin. In 1838 the Austrian rulers turned the castle into a barracks, a military magazine and a prison. In 1905 the castle was rebuilt under the mayor Wladislaw Barbacki and in 1938 the City Museum for the Nowy Sącz District was established here.
During the Second World War , the German occupiers set up barracks here and stored ammunition. The castle also became the scene of mass executions. On January 18, 1945, on the orders of Ivan Zolotar, commander of the Soviet partisans stationed in the New Sandets forests, Polish partisans blew up the castle along with the ammunition.
Nowy Sącz Castle today
Only a few wall sections have survived from the ruined castle. After the war, part of the wall and the blacksmith's bastion ( Baszta Kowalska ) were rebuilt with a renaissance accessory.
