Kreutzburg Castle

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Kreutzburg Castle

Kreutzburg Castle (also spelled Schloss Kreuzburg , Latvian Krustpils pils ) is a castle in the Latvian Krustpils that goes back to an Ordensburg . It is considered one of the best locks obtained in Latvia and has since December 16, 1998 under monument protection .

history

Representation of the castle from 1792

The first written mention of a castle belonging to the Archdiocese of Riga comes from the year 1318. It was the most easterly archbishop's castle on the Daugava and protected the trade routes leading to the east. In 1359 the Livonian Order took seven castles of the Riga Archdiocese, including Kreutzburg. In the spring of 1559, Russian troops burned the undefended Kreutzburg, but restored the castle after troops from Duke Magnus took it. From 1561 to 1772 Kreutzburg was under the rule of Poland-Lithuania . On March 1, 1585, Stephan Báthory transferred Kreutzburg to Nikolai von Korff , whose family owned the complex that had been converted into a castle until the Latvian agricultural reforms of 1920. After the premises had not been managed for 50 years and were left to decay, the castle was renovated after 1991 . Today there is a history museum in it.

architecture

In the 18th century, a castle was built on the site of the castle, partly using old parts of the wall. Its towers date from the Romantic era , and the large, square gate tower also dates from the 18th century, when such fortress-like entrance towers were particularly popular with manor houses in Livonia . On the east side of a rectangular courtyard is the residential wing with two round corner towers. The old, preserved gate tower emerges from the castle ring on the west side, and a third round corner tower is located on the south-west corner.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Kreutzburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Gatis Pavils: Krustpils medieval castle , accessed on February 5, 2019.
  2. ^ Website of the Latvian National Heritage Administration (Latvian), accessed on February 5, 2019.
  3. ^ A b Karl Woldemar von Löwis of Menar: Burgenlexikon für Alt-Livland . Walters and Rapa, Riga 1922, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Armin Tuulse: The castles in Estonia and Latvia (= negotiations of the learned Estonian society. Volume 33). Dorpater Estonian Publishing House, Dorpat 1942, p. 104 ( PDF ; 15.5 MB).

Coordinates: 56 ° 30 ′ 40 "  N , 25 ° 51 ′ 33.1"  E