ZAMEK W RADZYNIU CHEŁMIŃSKIM
Ludwika Waryńskiego
87-220 Radzyń Chełmiński
Bilet wstepu [Admission ticket].
Radzyń
Chełmiński Castle is a Brick Gothic monastery-castle completed in 1330 as the
seat of the Teutonic Knights' Commandry. It lies near Castle Lake (Polish:
Jezioro Zamkowe) to the north of the town of Radzyń Chełmiński. Three of the
four walls and most of the internal buildings of the keep are ruined. Originally
known as Rehden, it was started in 1234 on the orders of Hermann von Balk. In
1251, in the wake of the Prussian Uprising, the original wooden fort was remade
in brick in 1270–1285, destroyed, then rebuilt in its current form in
1310–1330. Under the Second Peace of Toruń (1466), it again went into Polish
control. In 1628, during the wars with the Swedes, the castle was devastated
during a siege, slowly turning into a ruin. It remained largely unusable until
annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772. In
1780, authorities ordered the deconstruction of the castle. Bricks from the
castle's outer structures and the inner keep's walls and buildings were
repurposed to build houses for the nearby town. The castle's deconstruction was
eventually stopped in 1837.
Thanks to Krystyna (https://pocztowkowezbiory.blogspot.com/).
