Date of execution: 2010-08-17.
Royal castle in Chęcinach the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The collapse occurred in the seventeenth century.
Today is the picturesque ruins of the imposing. Is visible from a distance of several kilometers, mainly due to the characteristic, soaring towers.
Panorama is made from the highest tower of the Eastern.
For those interested in more details about the castle recommend the web site: http://zamekcheciny.pl.
History zamku (fragment) quoted for in / at a party:
The construction of the castle in Chęcinach started at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and one of the initiators of this project is mentioned frequently Czech king Wenceslas II, biskupa Krakowa Yesterday Muskatę, Nicholas Sieciesławowicza coat Odrowąż or Ladislaus the Short (before the coronation). The first mention of the castle dates from 1306 r. and relates to the granting by the Short bishop Muscat stronghold with the eleven surrounding villages. This provision was withdrawn and the castle along with the emerging city became the center of princely rule, and then the king. At the beginning, only the present eastern part - two round towers of the wall in the shape of a polygon similar to a rectangle wpasowanego for relief.
Chęciny have an important role: the castle was often the king, and held reunions knighthood in the: 1310, 1318, 1331, 1333. In 1318 r. - For fear of the Teutonic Knights - treasury deposited here Archdiocese of Gniezno. Several years later, in June 1331 r. Chęcinach done in the king's son ruler of Wielkopolska, introduced equal rights, courts and a coin as an expression of the country's unification, was set to join the war against the Teutonic Knights, and after the exit Polish knights moved into Płowce. This event is considered as the beginning of Polish parliamentarism.
During the reign of Casimir the Great, the castle became the seat of the governors grodowych and the residence of the royal family. She was here in Adelaide Heska, Barren second wife of Casimir, exiled "punishment" by the disgruntled husband. After the death of the king of the castle lived his sister Elizabeth, held rule in the country on behalf of his son, Louis I of Hungary. Rezydentki the castle received as his salary income county Chęciński. The king extended the castle of a residential building on the north side and a porch, which then extended with a chapel….
| Technique: | |
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| apparatus: | Canon 500D |
| lens: | Falcon 8mm/3,5 |
| exposure: | F:8, 1/800, ISO400 |
| type: | Spherical panorama |
| HDR: | not |
| location: | Chęciny (swietokrzyskie) |