The ruins of the castle Krzyżtopór

Date made: 2010-08-24

Built in the years 1627-1644 by Christopher Ossoliński, never fully been completed. It is a vast mansion in the style of an Italian palazzo in Fortezza type. The builder, who drew up the plans and supervised the construction of the palace was Lawrence Senes. From the north adjacent once beautiful gardens in the Italian style.

The history of the palace and its magnificence is still not fully understood. This is the reason for the rise around the legend. One of them is the story of a palace used in the symbolism of numbers referring to the calendar: windows had so much, How many days a year, Room enough, how many weeks; rooms large enough, how many months, a 4 its corner towers corresponded to the number of quarters. No surviving building plans and etchings before the reconstruction in the eighteenth century, today prevents the actual image reconstruction of the castle from the mid-seventeenth century.

Its founder enjoyed it briefly. Krzysztof Ossoliński died suddenly a year after the completion of the. He left behind a debt assets, which was inherited by his son Christopher Baldwin Ossoliński. After the death of Christopher Baldwin Ossoliński (1649) palace inherited relative of the family Kalinowski. The palace was looted during the flood by Swedes (1655).
Inhabited by 1770, when it was destroyed by the Russian army during the defense of the army of the Confederation of Bar.

Today, the palace has the status of a permanent ruin. In the former classification monuments were included in the zero class. The building is a ruin with severe behavior, therefore interesting to explore. It includes extensive fortifications: bastiony, fossa, traces of fortifications and bridges.

Source: wikipedia.org

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Technique:
apparatus: Canon 500D
lens: Falcon 8/F:3,5
exposure: 8, 1/20 s, ISO100
type: Spherical panorama
HDR: not
location: Ujazd (swietokrzyskie)

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