Pieskowa Skała

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Castle and Hercules Club
Arcaded courtyard
Renaissance garden

Pieskowa Skała is a castle in Sułoszowa on a striking Jura rock on the left bank of the Prądnik River , in the Ojców National Park in the Kraków-Częstochowa Jura , about 25 kilometers northwest of Kraków in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

The first mention of a Peskenstein castle is in a document of the Polish Princeps Ladislaus I. Ellenlang from 1315, but it was probably a castle of Duke Heinrich the Bearded at another location in Sułoszowa. At today's point Pieskowa Skala was in the 14th century by King the Great Casimir as a fortress built and was then link in a chain of castles ( Trail of the Eagles' Nests ) that both the boundary of the Kingdom of Poland to the neighboring Silesia and the important trade route from Krakow on Olkusz and Beuthen to Breslau ( Via Regia ) should protect. This had become necessary because Silesia had come under the rule of Bohemia , with whose rulers the Polish kings were in conflict. From 1377 to 1608 the castle was the seat of the Szafraniec family. In the years 1542–1580 the Gothic castle was transformed into a Renaissance residence. During this time the arcade courtyard , which is similar to that of the Kraków Wawel Castle , was built. The fortifications with bastions were built in the 17th century . During the " Swedish Flood " (1655) and a fire in 1718, the castle was badly damaged and rebuilt in 1768 as the seat of the Wielopolski family. Another fire in 1850 destroyed the oldest part of the complex, the so-called High Castle. After a thorough renovation in 1950–1963, Pieskowa Skała became a department of the State Art Collections on the Wawel. Today the permanent exhibition "Style change in European art from the Middle Ages to the middle of the 19th century" is located here. The former state rooms and living quarters are furnished with furniture from different eras. Below the castle is the picturesque rock tower of the "Herkuleskeule" ( Maczuga Herkulesa ), which gives the sight of the castle complex from the south its characteristic character.

Web links

Commons : Pieskowa Skała  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pieskowa Skała . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 8 : Perepiatycha – Pożajście . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1887, p. 107 (Polish, edu.pl ).
  2. ^ History of Pieskowa Skała

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 39 ″  N , 19 ° 46 ′ 48 ″  E