Ogrodzieniec Castle is situated on a rocky hill called Mount Janowski east of the city Ogrodzieniec
Ogrodzieniec Castle is situated on a rocky hill called Mount Janowski east of the city Ogrodzieniec. The first assumption defensive wood and earth could exist here in the days of Boleslaw Boleslaw. It is also possible that the first city ogrodzieniecki was on top of a neighboring Birów where Blazej Muzolf in the 90s of the twentieth century when he discovered relics of the wooden castle. Brick fortress was established at the time of Casimir the Great, or slightly earlier. Casimir the Great granted the right ogrodzienieckie Marshal of the Polish Kingdom Przedborowi of Brzezia. When Przedbór received Ogrodzieniec castle was damaged and needed reconstruction, which was performed, it is possible that the earlier wooden castle obtained when masonry elements of defense. During this time he held the castle highest part of the rocks, but outside the walls of peripheral could only consist of a wooden building courtyard. It is possible that the north-east, where the slope fell gently existed shaft or defensive wall. The entrance to the castle ran through a gap in the rocks on the east side of the foundation. After the death of Przedbora castle returned to state ownership and in 1386 years Wladyslaw Jagiello gave him cześnikowi of Krakow and the alderman of the Lublin Włodek Charbinowice Sulima. In the fifteenth century, probably at the time of Sulimów, the castle was enlarged. On the eastern rock trzykondygnacjową residential tower was erected, and on the south - residential wing. The courtyard was provided, though perhaps already existed, the water tank. In 1470 years, the castle was bought by the family Sulimów by Imbrama and Peter Salomon, and then passed to the ownership of Rzeszów, Pilecki, Chelm and boners. In the first half of the sixteenth century the Ogrodzieńca was Seweryn Boner. He was the right hand of Sigismund the Old, who instructed him to rebuild the Wawel Castle. After the construction of the royal residence for himself he decided to erect an equally stunning. With many of his possessions Ogrodzieniec chosen as the best-located, close to Krakow. Rebuilt in a Gothic stronghold in the magnificent Renaissance Ogrodzieńcu established. He was also the northern wing, expanded south, which received two towers, and in place of the former gate erected a third gate tower, which led to the drawbridge. The gate tower decorated on the third floor chapel. At the foot of the castle bailey stretched wide for commercial purposes and entertainment, which were arranged tournaments. After the death of Seweryn Boner expansion still continued by his son Stanislaw, who built the west wing, and to the south added a "chicken leg" outside the castle walls, the building had five floors and each placed shooting.
Castle in the sixteenth century, however, was more than the object of a defensive residence. The next owner was Nicholas Ogrodzieńca Ligęza who raised the defense of the castle from the south rising next to the "chicken legs" boulevards. The castle was in 1587 conquered by the Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, but did not suffer in this episode. Then there was the property Firlejs, and half of the seventeenth century, Andrew Firle made minor construction work and changed the castle into a Baroque decor. During the Swedish invasion, the castle was overrun by invaders, but also did not hurt. After the withdrawal of the Swedish castle became Castellan of Krakow Stanislaw Warszycki that surrounded the bailey wall with a gate and erected within it a stable and coach-house.
1702 began with the fall of the castle. The Swedish army of Charles XII withdrawing from those areas set fire to the residence. The owners of Męcińscy did not take too costly repair and the castle fell into disrepair. In 1784 the ruined buildings bought from Męcińskich Thomas Jakliński, be suitable for use here only a few rooms. In 1810 the last owner Ogrodzieńca Jaklińskiego sister eventually left the castle. Since that time, it was a place where the building blocks for the surrounding farms. In the early twentieth century the area of the ruins bought one of the local peasants, but it does not change the destination of the ruins.
In the interwar period the initiative of Alexander Janowski, co-founder of the Polish Tourism Association, gradually buying up land castle and proceeded to secure the property.
After the Second World War was secured in the years 1949-1973 the castle as a permanent ruin and made available to tourists.
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