Chortkovsky Castle - a historical castle near Chortkov in the Ternopil region of Ukraine on the left bank of the Seret River.
| Castle | |
| Chortkivsky Castle | |
|---|---|
| Ukrainian Chortkivsky castle | |
| A country |  Ukraine |
| Ternopil region | Chortkiv city |
| Founder | Jerzy Chartkowski |
| Established | XIV century |
| Building | XIV - XVII centuries |
| condition | Ruin |
History
The wooden fortification in this place was erected at the end of the XIV century by the first owner of these places - Jerzy Chartkowski. In 1597, these places became the property of Stanislav Golsky , and in 1610 a stone castle was built on the site of the fortification destroyed by the Tatars. After the death of Stanislav Golsky in 1612, the owner of the castle was his brother Jan Golsky , the castellan of Kamenets. In 1618, his widow Sophia transferred the castle to the Bratslav governor Stefan Potocki, whose family he later owned for about 100 years. The new owners built a Renaissance palace in the courtyard of the castle.
In 1648, Chortkov became one of the centers of the Khmelnitsky uprising , and the castle was taken by the Cossacks of Maxim Krivonos . In 1649, the Cossacks again stormed the castle. During the Russo-Polish war that followed , the castle in 1655 was defended for several days by troops under the command of Peter Potocki , but then it was taken by the Russian-Cossack troops.
In 1670, the castle was besieged by the Turks, and after the transfer of these places under the rule of the Ottoman Empire from 1672 to 1683, it was the residence of the Turkish sub-Pasha Chortkivsky Nakhii Podolsky, then it was taken by the troops of Andrzej Potocki . Under the terms of the Charles Congress (1698–1699), on January 16, 1699, Chortkov was transferred to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth .
In 1750, the castle passed from the Potocki to the Vrublevsky, and then to the Sadovsky, who established a tobacco warehouse there in 1809, and subsequently began to lease it to the Austrian authorities. Since 1815, a city prison was housed in the castle, in which in 1863 the Austrians placed participants in the January uprising in Russia interned in Galicia.
The last owner of the castle - Jerome Sadovsky - before his death in 1895 bequeathed all his property to charity; his executor was the Order of the Sisters of Mercy in Stary Chortkiv. In 1937, the castle was bought by the Podolsky Tourist and Local History Association, which made a partial reconstruction of the castle.
After the transfer of these lands to the USSR , the castle housed a motor depot.
Links
- Castles and churches of Ukraine (Ukrainian)