Cisy Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Zeisburg , Zeisberg , Zeiskenschloss | |
| Creation time : | around 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Hillside castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Dukes | |
| Place: | Cieszów (Merry Village) | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 51 '38 " N , 16 ° 14' 50.9" E | |
| Height: | 400 m npm | |
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The ruins of Cisy Castle (also Zamek Cisów , Zamek Cieszów ; German Zeisburg ; Cziskenberg ; Zeisberg ; Zeiskenschloss ) are located near Cieszów (Fröhlichsdorf) in the municipality of Stare Bogaczowice (Altreichenau) in the Powiat Wałbrzyski (Waldenburg district) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .
Location and description
The ruins of Zeisburg are located in the Waldenburger Bergland . It stands on a densely wooded, 350 m high limestone ridge that slopes steeply into the Zeisenbach valley. Neighboring towns are Dobromierz (Hohenfriedeberg) in the north, Świebodzice (Freiburg) in the east, Szczawno-Zdrój (Bad Salzbrunn) in the south and Struga (Adelsbach) in the west. Fürstenstein Castle is to the southeast .
The castle complex consisted of an eastern and a western outer bailey. The main castle was protected by a double wall. In the courtyard there was a round donjon from the end of the 13th century in the south-east and the residential buildings in the north-west. In 1935–1937 the overgrown complex was largely exposed, the keep was added and the drawbridge and gatehouse were reconstructed.
history
Zeisburg was probably built by Duke Bolko I to protect the important trade route from Wroclaw via Schweidnitz , Landeshut , Trautenau and Königgrätz to Prague. It belonged to the Adelsbach manor and was first mentioned in 1242 when it was owned by Betsche / Peczco von Czettritz on "Cziskenberg". In the first half of the 14th century it was ruled by robber knights and therefore stormed by Duke Bolko II in 1355 . Two years later he gave the castle to the nickel of Bolcze as a fief . He held an important position at the court of Bolko's widow Agnes , which also increased the importance of Zeisburg. Around the year 1400 the Zeiskenburg belonged to Ulrich von Czettritz, who died in Adelsbach in 1450 and was buried in Waldenburg . In 1466 it belonged to Hans von Czettritz, whose descendants expanded the castle into a fortification in the second half of the 16th century. At the beginning of the 18th century they gave up Zeisburg, which started their decline.
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. 578.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Ernst Würffel: First complete chronicle of the city of Freiburg i. Schl. edited from the original sources, Freiburg i. Silesia, ca.1938, p. 8