Zolochiv castle description and photo - Ukraine: Lviv region (Topic)

Zolochiv castle description and photo - Ukraine: Lviv region. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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A unique historical monument and defensive architecture of the 17th century. is the Zolochiv castle, which is located on the outskirts of the city of Zolochiv, Lviv region.

The first written records of the Zolochevsky castle date back to 1532, when the owner of the city Stanislav Seninsky sold it to Count Gurkov. After that, the castle passed into the ownership of Yakov Sobessky, who in 1634 rebuilt and fortified it with four bastions. After the reconstruction, the castle took the form of a bastion-type citadel. It was surrounded by earthen ramparts, at the corners of which were bastions with watchtowers.

On the territory of the castle there was a two-story palace built in the Renaissance style, as well as a Chinese palace. Zolochiv Castle is especially proud of its toilets, which have a rather original design. Some of them have survived to this day.

At the end of the XVII century. the owner of the castle was the Polish king Jan III Sobieski, who inherited it from his father. In 1672 the castle was badly destroyed by the Turks, but by 1675 it was restored. After the death of the Polish king Jan III, his son, Prince Jacob, lived in the castle, after his death, in 1737, the castle passed into the possession of the Radziwill family, who did not particularly care about the castle, and as a result, the structure began to collapse.

The Komarnitskys became the new owners of Zolochev in 1802. Having restored the castle, they sold it to the Austrian government, after which it first housed military barracks, and then a prison and a courtroom.

In 1939, the NKVD department was located in the castle, during the German occupation - the Gestapo, in the post-war years vocational school, and only in 1986 a museum was opened in the castle. Nowadays Zolochiv Castle is a museum-reserve, a branch of the Lviv Art Gallery, in which its entire planning structure, formed during the 17th century, has been preserved.

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