Castle in Konary

he castle in Konary was probably erected in the second half of the fourteenth century on a previously ramparted place. The first mention of the village comes from 1355, when Konary was the property of the Słupecki family. However, the document does not mention the castle. In the second half of the fourteenth century, the village belonged to Sięgniew, and then to his son Grot. We learn about the castle from sources from 1403, after Grot became involved in robbery activities. Jan Długosz writes in the chronicle about the murder of castellan Jan Ossoliński, Władysław Jagiełło was to send an expedition against Grot for this reason. The castle was demolished and the owner sentenced to exile.

It is possible that the castle was rebuilt, and was abandoned at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth 

Faint remains of the castle, photo by ZeroJeden, VII 2001

centuries.

The castle was located on a hill above the valley of Koprzywianka. On the south-west side, where the promontory joins the terrain with a gentler slope, a moat was dug. Currently, the whole is made up of overgrown remains of walls and ramparts, difficult to distinguish, from a distance only the arch of the basement vault preserved from the side of the moat is visible. No excavations have been carried out here so far, and amateur interwar attempts ended only with the discovery of the aforementioned basement vault.