The Strusiv Castle () is a defensive
castle
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...
built in
Strusiv,
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 ...
.
Location
The castle was located in the Chortova Debra tract.
History
The site for erecting the castle was chosen on the left bank of the
Seret River
The Seret ( Ukrainian: Серéт) is the left tributary of the Dniester that flows through the Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine. It is long and its basin area is . The towns of Ternopil, Terebovlia and Chortkiv sit along the river's banks. Some of ...
, which is a left tributary of the
Dniester
The Dniester ( ) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova (from which it more or less separates the breakaway territory of Transnistria), finally discharging into the Black Sea on Uk ...
.
Thus, the castle was located on one side of the river, while the city was on the other. The fortification significantly towered over the river valley, so there was a good view of the entire city from the castle. It is likely that the castle not only protected the approach to the city from the north, but also controlled the main roads leading to it. During the first period of
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern , Polish: ; 15956 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as ...
's rebellion in 1648, Cossack-Tartar troops seized the castle, and the Tatars looted and almost completely destroyed the town.
[ St. Nicholas Basilian Orthodox Church was built on the site of the castle.Струсівський замок в селі Струсів]
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Architecture
In the first half of the 17th century, the castle was rectangular in shape, measuring about 100 by 150 meters, and was protected by earthen ramparts and ditches, as well as stone fortifications. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, by order of Countess Lanckorońska, the castle's surviving buildings were demolished for building materials. Remnants of the castle's defensive walls, walls and ditches have survived to the present day.[
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See also
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References
{{Castles in Ukraine
Castles in Ternopil Oblast
Ruined castles in Ukraine