he ruins of the 'Cisy' castle are located on a hill, the northern slope of which ends with a steep cliff. The oldest mention of Cisów comes from 1240; Perhaps there was a stronghold there at that time. The castle was probably built during the reign of Bolko I, the Duke of Świdnica-Jawor, at the end of the 13th century, on a quadrilateral plan, of stone with characteristic corner buttresses. The entrance led through the gate from the west, and in the south-east corner there was a circular tower with a diameter of over ten meters. The opposite corner was occupied by a spacious residential building. Further expansion went in the direction of surrounding the castle with an external wall and establishing a courtyard on the west side, also surrounded by walls; These walls were irregular, adapted in outline to the rocky terrain. Then a new element was introduced in the form of an external courtyard on the eastern side, surrounded by a wall with a semicircular bastion and a gatehouse.
Around the middle of the fourteenth century, the castle was in the hands of robber knights and was conquered by Bolko II. This prince gave it in 1355 to the castellan of Strzegom, Mikołaj Bolcze. During his reign, the castle was expanded, and it was often visited by Bolko II's wife Agnes. In 1408, the
Drawing by T.Mann from the 20s of the twentieth century, V.Schaetzke - Schlesische Burgen und Schlösser
castle was purchased by Alexander von Grunau, and in 1429 by Ulrich von Seydlitz. In 1466, the castle was heavily damaged by the Hussite army and it should be assumed that the ramparts surrounding the entire complex and the walls with gates and a bridge on the moat were built in the second half of the fifteenth century as a reconstruction after these destructions. After the destruction by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War, the castle was taken over by the Czettritz family, but this did not protect the building from progressive ruin. Finally, the castle was abandoned around 1800. During the conservation works carried out in the interwar years, among other things, the outer gate was reconstructed, and in the years 1965-1966 the walls and the entire surroundings were cleaned up, and the tower is well preserved.
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e ruins of the 'Cisy' castle are located on a hill, the northern slope of which ends with a steep cliff. The oldest mention of Cisów comes from 1240; Perhaps there was a stronghold there at that time. The castle was probably built during the reign of Bolko I, the Duke of Świdnica-Jawor, at the end of the 13th century, on a quadrilateral plan, of stone with characteristic corner buttresses. The entrance led through the gate from the west, and in the south-east corner there was a circular tower with a diameter of over ten meters. The opposite corner was occupied by a spacious residential building. Further expansion went in the direction of surrounding the castle with an external wall and establishing a courtyard on the west side, also surrounded by walls; These walls were irregular, adapted in outline to the rocky terrain. Then a new element was introduced in the form of an external courtyard on the eastern side, surrounded by a wall with a semicircular bastion and a gatehouse.
