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Castle of Warmian Bishops in Lidzbark Warmiński
Zamek biskupów warmińskich w Lidzbarku Warmińskim
Lidzbark Castle (Lidzbark Bishops' Castle) is a 14th-century brick Gothic fortified palace in Lidzbark Warmiński, northern Poland, built as the seat of the Warmian bishops. It stands by the confluence of the Symsarna and Łyna rivers, surrounded by a defensive moat, and today houses a branch of the regional museum.
First raised
1350
Its prime
1401
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1401
What Castle of Warmian Bishops in Lidzbark Warmiński looked like in its prime.
Massive red-brick square-plan stronghold with roughly 48.5-metre-long walls and a steep red-tiled gabled roof; the north-east wing carries a tall, multi-stage tower whose lower section is square with posterns and the upper section becomes octagonal, while the other four corners are topped by smaller square decorative towers. Long pointed-arch clerestory windows puncture blind stretches of curtain wall. The castle sits within a water-filled moat at a river estuary and encloses a two-level cloistered courtyard.
Its story
The story of Castle of Warmian Bishops in Lidzbark Warmiński.
Lidzbark Castle was built between 1350 and 1401 as the seat of the bishops of Warmia, by the estuary of the Symsarna with the Łyna in what was for centuries the largest town in Warmia; it later went into the hands of the Teutonic Order, whose architectural style shows in the courtyard and in the chapel, the small and big refectories, the capitulary, the common hall and the bishops' chambers.
The brick Gothic castle is built on a square plan with 48.5-metre walls, a fourteen-level tower, square below, octagonal above, in the north-east wing and small decorative towers at the other corners, the whole encircled by a defensive moat. Its two-level cloistered courtyard is the only historical one in Poland to have survived architecturally unchanged. Counted among the most precious Gothic structures in the country, the castle now hosts cabaret events in the autumn months and houses a branch of the regional museum.
Step inside
12 places to explore in 1401.
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