On a rocky mountain near the town of Odrzykoń in Podzamczu are the ruins of the castle of the knights of the fourteenth century
On a rocky mountain near the town of Odrzykoń in Podzamczu are the ruins of the castle of the knights of the fourteenth century. This castle called "Kamenets" was built during the reign of Casimir the Great. Then the highest part of the castle was built on an irregular pentagon called the upper castle and a small ward. Originally Gothic assumption was finally developed by the fourteenth century the Crown podkanclerza Clement of Pilawitów. After the expansion of the castle consisted of buildings Kazimierzowskie the highest and most inaccessible part of the rock, and rebuilt the ward average castle located in the east at a slightly lower level. This part of the castle also had a plan adapted to the irregular topography. Next reconstruction was made in the fifteenth century by the descendants of Clement - Kamienieckich and concerned mainly the Middle Castle. So far, the castle was purely defensive, just another reconstruction brought the establishment of certain elements of representation. This involved BOX Third on the upper castle. Basement and ground floor were economic, floor - residential and built onto the highest tier adopted characteristic for her medieval castles representative character.
At the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries past two-word assumption was divided in two walls przedzamczu, had to do with the development of artillery. The individual parts created in this way fulfill different functions now - Sale, fortified and the economy.
Castle average in 1530 passed into the hands of boners. Later in the century the whole swap the owners. During the Swedish invasion, the castle was damaged, then another army Rakoczy eroded walls. Since then, the castle fell into disrepair in the nineteenth century was already in complete ruins.
In such a state was the castle when he visited him Aleksander Fredro. The Revenge described feuds between the owners of the castle, which he learned from the written communications which reached here. The protagonists of the quarrel were two families - Firlejs in the seventeenth century possessed the castle and the average SKOTNICCY upper castle.
To this day, preserved fragments of the castle walls of the upper and middle portal and part of the outer walls.