The Skala-Podilska Castle () it is located

Skala-Podilska Skala-Podilska (; ; ; ) or Skala upon Zbruch (; ; ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine over the Zbruch River. It hosts the administration of Skala-Podilska settlemen ...

of the

Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tribu ...

, above a ravine of the

Zbruch River The Zbruch (; ) is a river in Western Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dniester.Збруч

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History

The castle was erected in the 14th century by the family of the Prince Koriatowiczów. Roman Aftanazy, Dzieje rezydencji na dawnych kresach Rzeczypospolitej, wyd. drugie przejrzane i uzupełnione, t. 9: Województwo podolskie, Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1996, s. 346-352, ISBN 83-04-04268-1, ISBN 83-04-03701-7 (całość). Then, after 1515, it was significantly expanded by Stanislaw Lanckoroński of Brzezie (1465–1535) of Zadora coat of arms, starosta of Kamieniec, later Sandomierz voivode at the behest of King

Sigismund I the Old Sigismund I the Old (, ; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was List of Polish monarchs, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV of P ...

. The Lanckoronski family owned the castle until 1706. Then the owners were the Tarłows. All that remains of the castle, which occupied the entire promontory, is a massive 16th-century tower, standing at the base of the promontory.

Palace

The ruins of the two-story Tarłow palace, which divided the castle courtyard into two parts: the larger southern part and the smaller northern part, where the remains of the oldest part of the castle are located. In 1914. The Gołuchowskis built a new one-story palace on a different site.

References

Bibliography

* * Ukraina zachodnia: tam szum Prutu, Czeremoszu..., zespół red. A. Strojny, K. Bzowski, A. Grossman. Kraków: Wyd. Bezdroża, 2005, s. 283. ISBN 83-921981-6-6.

External links

* {{Castles in Ukraine Castles in Ternopil Oblast Ruined castles in Ukraine National Landmarks in Ternopil Oblast