Nonharts residence in Gaityunishki description and photos - Belarus: Grodno region (Topic)

Nonharts residence in Gaityunishki description and photos - Belarus: Grodno region. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The fortress house in Gaityunishki is the residence of the Nonharts family. Nonharts are Dutch by nationality, who came at the invitation of the Grand Duke of Lithuania. Piotr Nonhart received Gaityunishki as a reward for his service as the mayor of Vilna and the head of the royal buildings.

Engineer Petr Nonhart independently developed the project of the castle in the Dutch style. He was assisted by an engineer-fortifier Van Daden.

This miniature snow-white fortress under a high red tile roof was built in 1612 on the left bank of the Zhizhma River. The rectangular two-storey building is reinforced at the corners with round towers. A rectangular three-storey tower was built in the center of the castle above its main entrance. The once impregnable walls of the fortress, reaching 1.5 meters in thickness, were surrounded by deep ditches, filled with water and were additionally guarded by bastions.

After the death of Peter Nonhart, the fortress house in Gaitinishki went to his only daughter, who married the voivode Yuri Khreptovich. After the death of his father, the family castle was inherited by Adam Khreptovich. Among the owners of the fortress house was the famous artist Schrotter, who painted the walls of the house with paintings depicting hunting scenes. During the Great Northern War, the Swedes settled in the castle, who were besieged by Polish troops.

Today, the picturesque white castle houses a hospital for mentally ill criminals whom the state sentenced not to prison, but to compulsory psychiatric treatment. p>

The ruins of the Nonharts family tomb, built in 1633, and outbuildings,

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