Talkenstein Castle
| Talkenstein castle ruins | ||
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| place | Rząsiny | |
| Construction year | 13th Century | |
| demolition | 1818 | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 '35.9 " N , 15 ° 54' 2.3" E | |
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The ruins of Talkenstein Castle ( Zamek Podskale in Polish ) are located in Rząsiny (German Welkersdorf ) in the rural municipality of Gryfów Śląski ( Greiffenberg ) in the powiat Lwówecki ( Löwenberg ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . Historically, the area belonged to the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer .
history
The castle's layout is said to go back to Duke Heinrich the Bearded . The castle was probably directed against attacks from Bohemia . The duke had a bailiff appointed by Talkenberg on Plagwitz. This office expired when the Duchy of Jauer came under Bohemian fiefdom in 1368 . A Bernhard von Talkenstein is documented for 1470. The castle was notorious as a robber baron's seat.
In 1476 the castle was conquered by Tuppen under Matthias Corvinus . According to personal instructions, "all bricklayers and carpenters" from Löwenberg and Hirschberg are to come to break the wall and "afterwards cover this place, two cubits high" with wood and burn it down.
In 1479 the village of Welkersdorf and the remains of the castle were given to the citizens of the city of Löwenberg. However, in 1481 Christoph von Talkenstein made a settlement with the Löwenberg guarantors, with which he got the castle square back. From 1818 rubble from the castle was used for road construction.
Fragments of the curtain wall and the outlines of a residential building have been preserved to this day .
literature
- Günther Grundmann : The medieval castle ruins, castles and residential towers (= castles, palaces and manor houses in Silesia. Volume 1). Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8035-1161-5 , pp. 8-9
