Lubart's Castle
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| Lutsk Castle | |
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| Lutsk, Ukraine | |
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| Site information | |
| Type | Castle |
| Location | |
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| Site history | |
| Built | 14th century |
| Built by | Liubartas |
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Official name | Script error: No such module "Lang". (Castle) |
| Type | Architecture |
| Reference no. | 030106 |
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Lutsk Castle (Template:Langx; Template:Langx), also locally known as Liubart's Castle (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) or Upper Castle (Template:Langx; Template:Langx), began its life in the mid-14th century as the fortified seat of Gediminas' son Liubartas (Lubart), the last ruler of united Galicia-Volhynia. It is the most prominent landmark of Lutsk, Ukraine and as such appears on the 200 hryvnia bill. (Another city castle, called Lower Castle, built by the Czartoryski family since the 14th century, is now a ruin).
History
The Kievan Rus' town of Luchesk had a wooden wall as early as 1075, when Boleslaus the Bold laid siege to it for six months. Yury Dolgoruky failed to take Lutsk after a six-week siege in 1149. In 1255, the walls of Lutsk were stormed by Khan Jochi's grandson Kuremsa.[1]
The current castle, towering over the Styr River, was built mostly in the 1340s, although some parts of the earlier walls were used. It repelled sieges by numerous potentates, including Casimir the Great (1349), Jogaila (1431), and Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1436). In addition to the Lithuanian nobles gathered there with the Supreme Duke of Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło and the Grand Duke Vytautas, the Congress was attended by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund; the Grand Prince of Moscow Vasily II; and the Voivode Dan II of Wallachia.[2]
During the long reign of Vytautas, Lutsk Castle was further fortified to guard against artillery and gunfire. The principal entrance, now bricked in, was from the west and adjoined a bridge over outer moat. Three main towers, now named "Lubart", "Švitrigaila" (both after Lithuanian princes) and the "Bishop", were built up in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The walls of the castle formerly enclosed St. John's Cathedral, a palace of the grand dukes, and an episcopal palace. Of these buildings, only the Neoclassical palace of the bishops still stands.
During the 1940s Lubart’s Castle became a Nazi execution site of over 4000 Jews. One photograph, taken June 18, 1941, shows a large group of Jewish men sitting under German guard in front of Lubart’s Castle in Lutsk guarded by German soldiers. Only weeks prior several massacres had taken place at this same place. On July 2, 1941 1,160 Jews were murdered within the walls of the castle.[3] There is no monument or marker for this tragedy in the castle. On July 4, 3,000 more Jews were executed by gunshot here.[4]
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View of the castle circa 1916
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The castle tower on the reverse of 200 hryvnias banknote
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Романовская, В.Б.; Квачадзе, О.Б. (March 2015). "Политические основы правового статуса человека по средневековому праву городов Руси и Западной Европы XI-XIV вв.: сравнительно-правовой анализ" [Political Foundations of the Legal Status of a Person According to the Medieval Law of the Cities of Rus' and Western Europe in the 11th-14th Centuries: A Comparative Legal Analysis]. Genesis: исторические исследования (in русский). 3 (3): 255–279. doi:10.7256/2409-868x.2015.3.14807. ISSN 2409-868X.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pucek, Zdzisław (1992-10-03). "Book review. K. Kowalski, B. Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991: Mammals of Algeria. Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków, Ossolineum-Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 370 pp". Acta Theriologica. 37: 140. doi:10.4098/at.arch.92-14. ISSN 0001-7051.
- ^ Timothy Snyder: The Life and Death of Western Volhynian Jewry, 1921-1945. In: Ray Brandon, Wendy Lower: The Shoah in Ukraine. Indiana University Press, 2008, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, S. 92
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Traces of Jewish life. « balticworlds.com". balticworlds.com. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
Further reading
- Памятники градостроительства и архитектуры Украинской ССР. Киев: Будивельник, 1983—1986. Том 2, с. 48.
External links
- Walk around Lutsk Castle (video)
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