Złotoria Castle

Arches and vaults are lost

The castle in Złotoria (German: Zollburg , also called Schlotterey Castle ) is the older of the two former Polish border castles near Toruń (Thorn) in Poland . It is located in the neighboring municipality of Złotoria on the headland between the Vistula and the Drwęca, which flows in from the north .

In the Middle Ages, the Drewenz was the border river between the Kulmerland , which Konrad of Masovia had given to the Teutonic Order in the Treaty of Kruschwitz in 1230 , and the Dobriner Land , which remained in the hands of the Polish Piasts with interruptions . To the west of it, the Vistula formed the southern border of the order state .

King Casimir the Great had the castle built in front of the strategically important corner of the Kulmerland in 1343.

In 1408 it was conquered and destroyed by the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Ulrich von Jungingen after eight days of siege . With the First Peace of Thorner , however, it was returned to the Polish crown in 1411. With the Second Peace of Thor , it became militarily superfluous.

After the Napoleonic founding of the Duchy of Warsaw , the castle or castle ruins were again on a Polish- Prussian border and from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War on the Russian- Prussian border .

The current ruins of the Gothic brick building still show style-specific details to experts.

See also

• Dybów Castle (the other of the two Polish border castles near Thorn)

Web links

• List of monuments of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (PDF, in Polish) → p. 98, Złotoria

literature

• Mirosław Krajewski: Ziemia Dobrzyńska: Zeszyty Historyczne Dobrzyńskiego Oddziału WTN, VI. Rypin: Dobrzyński Oddział Włocławskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego w Rypinie, 1999, pp. 35-36.

Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 52 ″  N , 18 ° 41 ′ 29 ″  E