Tepliwoda Castle
The Tepliwoda Castle ( Polish Zamek w Ciepłowodach ) is a medieval tower house goes back to the 13th century castle ruin in Ciepłowody (German Tepliwoda ) in Powiat Ząbkowicki (Kreis Frankenstein ) in the Province of Lower Silesia in Poland. Historically it belonged to the Duchy of Münsterberg .
history
Tepliwoda was first mentioned in the Heinrichauer foundation book in 1222 . At that time there was a fortress in the place , which was inhabited by the knight Albert, called Lyka. He probably created a settlement here as a locator , which he implemented under German law in 1242. In the 14th century the estate was owned by the Seckel (in) family. A castle was probably built around 1400. The residential tower in the west, which was surrounded by a semicircular defensive wall, and the remaining parts of the surrounding wall in the east date from this time .
In 1442, the Münsterberg sovereign Hynek Kruschina von Lichtenburg destroyed the castle because it is said to have been a robber baron's nest. In 1464 the castle belonged to Ulrich von Schaffgotsch and in 1476 it came to the brothers Heinrich and Konrad von Seidlitz as a fief . Their descendants achieved the inheritance conversion of the property in 1502. In the 16th century, the castle was converted into a palace with a semicircular floor plan and courtyard in the Renaissance style. At the same time the strong external fortifications with two trenches were built. The von Seidlitz family owned the complex until 1722, followed by the von Schreyvogel family.
After the transfer to Prussia in 1742, the castle and estate came to the von Schweinichen family through marriage in 1757 . In 1839 it was owned by Prince William of Orange , who later became King of the Netherlands . In 1841 a fire destroyed parts of the castle. With the reconstruction, there was also a conversion into a simple building. In 1863 Wilhelm's daughter Sophie married the Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxony-Weimar . As a result, Tepliwoda and the castle came to the House of Saxe-Weimar .
As a result of the Second World War, Tepliwoda fell to Poland together with Silesia in 1945. After 1945 the castle was inhabited by PGR employees . The privately owned facility has been falling into disrepair since 1970.
state of construction
Inside the tower, the wooden ceilings have collapsed. Only the groin vault on the ground floor has been preserved. In front of the tower there are ruins of the Renaissance complex.
literature
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 529 f.
- Georg Dehio (greeting): Ernst Badstübner (ed.): Silesia. ( Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland ) . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 234
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 27.1 ″ N , 16 ° 54 ′ 1.1 ″ E