Poland · Restored
Reszel Castle
Reszel Castle is a red-brick Ordensburg fortress on the bank of the river Sajna in Reszel, built by the Teutonic Order in the late 14th century. Constructed between 1350 and 1401, the complex features a large round tower, a tall gatehouse and curtain walls; today it has been restored and contains a museum, hotel and restaurant.
First raised
1373
Its prime
1401
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1401
What Reszel Castle looked like in its prime.
Large red-brick fortress on a raised stone base beside a river and town, dominated by a massive cylindrical keep with a conical red-tile roof and a tall rectangular gate-tower with a high pointed arched entrance. Thick curtain walls of coursed red brick link the towers and show rows of small embrasures and blind arches; roofs are steep and covered with orange-red tiles. A slender, taller tower with a pointed spire rises from the adjacent domestic range. At prime the whole complex reads as a complete fortified Ordensburg.
Its story
The story of Reszel Castle.
Reszel Castle is a red-brick fortress on the bank of the river Sajna, in the south-east of the town, raised between 1350 and 1401. Built for the Bishop of Warmia, Jan of Miśnia, its first occupiers were the Teutonic Knights, and the Ordensburg was frequently looted, besieged and taken by Polish and Teutonic forces in turn.
The complex features a large round tower, a tall gatehouse and curtain walls. In the nineteenth century the castle was adapted into a prison; fully renovated after the Second World War, it now houses a branch of the Museum of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Olsztyn, together with a hotel and a restaurant.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1401.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Reszel Castle — including 3 interiors: gatehouse passage through the main gate-tower, inner courtyard enclosed by the ranges, chapel / principal hall space inside the domestic range. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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