The Castle can be visited
CastleJeziorany (Seeburg)
Ordensburg Seeburg
Seeburg Castle was a castle from the time of the Teutonic Order in what is now Jeziorany, Poland, in East Prussia.
A wooden castle ("Rosgarte inferius Castro") is mentioned in the charter of 1338. The expansion in stone took place as part of the ambitious castle building program initiated by Bishop Johann I von Meißen (1350–55) in the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, which also included the expansion of the castles of Allenstein, Rößel and Heilsberg. These castle complexes were planned with a common basic concept and built at the same time. Soldau Castle can be assumed as a model in the Order's land. According to the chronicler Johannes Plastwich, the castle was largely completed under his successor Johann II. Stryprock (1355–1373). After a fire caused by lightning, the citizens largely demolished the castle by 1789 and used the building material to rebuild the city.
Architecture+
The castle has a castellan castle layout, one main and one secondary wing, and a gate tower. The keep in the corner of the castle opposite the main wing was square at the bottom and round at the top. In Seeburg, the often strict castellan form of the convent castles in the Teutonic Order's land is loosened by a greater independence of the individual building structures. Only parts of the cellar and ground floor walls of the west wing, which has been used as an administration building since the 19th century, the foundations of the south wing, the ground floor walls of the keep and remnants of the north wall have been preserved to this day.
Take Mobile History with you
You are reading this text for free. Premium adds what matters on the road: descriptions read aloud, sites found through your camera, whole regions taken offline.
- Every description, including the ~17,700 Premium sites
- Audio guide: have descriptions read to you on location
- AR finder: see sites through your camera, with distance and bearing
- Unlimited saved sites
14 days free, then from €2.99 a month. Cancel anytime.
Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: Foto: Jörg Heldt (Community)
This description is a machine translation of an excerpt from the linked Wikipedia article. The source text was written by its authors, the translation is by Mobile History; like the original it is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Location: 53.9764, 20.7433