Ortelsburg Castle
| Ordensburg Ortelsburg | |
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 Ortelsburg Castle |
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| Creation time : | 1370 |
| Castle type : | Location |
| Conservation status: | Leftovers |
| Standing position : | Ordensburg |
| Place: | Szczytno |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 34 '0 " N , 20 ° 59' 24" E |
The castle Szczytno , was a Teutonic castle of the Teutonic Order in the then East Prussian city of Szczytno, today Szczytno in Poland .
history
The first wooden castle from 1360 was burned down by the Lithuanians. Then it was built in stone in 1370. A four-winged fort was built over a square floor plan with a side length of 39 m. Almost the entire masonry up to the main floor consists of field and bricks. At the southwest corner there was a tower with a base area of 9 × 9 m. Each of the four wings was over three floors and about 11 m wide. The walls were secured with ditches and ramparts. After the destruction in the Thirteen Years' War by Georg Friedrich I (Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach), it was rebuilt from 1579 to 1581 by the builders Blasius Berwart and Hans Wissmar and expanded with a fortification, and it served as a hunting lodge . Then it became magazine and arsenal. The east wing was torn down between 1766 and 1792. Then the building fell into disrepair. Today only the foundation walls can be seen.
literature
- Tomasz Torbus: The convent castles in the Teutonic Order of Prussia . Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56358-0 , pp. 230-232, 559-564, doi: 10.11588 / diglit.43361 .
