he castle in Gościszów is mentioned as early as 1294, it was probably erected not much earlier. At the end of the fourteenth century, it was rebuilt, but it received its current form during the next reconstruction - from 1603. At that time, some of the original fragments were preserved, but the entire complex received the late Renaissance style.
The four-sided courtyard is surrounded on three sides by residential and farm buildings, on the fourth side it is closed with a wall. The outer perimeter,
photo by ZeroJeden, V 2005
unlike the courtyard, is oval in shape. The whole is surrounded by a moat with water, through which a Baroque stone bridge is thrown, leading to the entrance gate with a richly carved Renaissance portal. The castle walls are crowned with triangular gables, the whole was decorated with sgraffito.
The castle complex also includes farm buildings located north of the perimeter of the walls of the main castle. They were erected in the seventeenth century and rebuilt in the eighteenth.
The castle was destroyed at the end of World War II, and in 1965 it was secured as a permanent ruin.
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e castle in Gościszów is mentioned as early as 1294, it was probably erected not much earlier. At the end of the fourteenth century, it was rebuilt, but it received its current form during the next reconstruction - from 1603. At that time, some of the original fragments were preserved, but the entire complex received the late Renaissance style.
