Top 5 Castles around Bielsko-Biała

The fortifications that 🅆🄸🅃⭕ 🇵🇱 writes about are particularly clearly visible on the north-eastern side of the park surrounding the palace, where the outlines of two bastions and the curtain wall between them have been preserved. The western bastion is also quite well preserved, but the curtains adjoining it have been flattened.

More information at the following link: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Bielsko-Bia%C5%82a

Castle under renovation, but stop and take a photo, you can refuel your bike.

The construction work on the castle does not seem to be complete yet. Unfortunately it is not accessible, but you can see it relatively well from the fence.

Beautiful castle, recently fully renovated and approximately from 1.10.2022 open to the public as museum.

The castle rising in the center of Bielsko-Biała is the oldest and largest historic building in the historic city of Bielsko. According to legend, in its place there used to be a stronghold of robbers attacking traveling merchants. The Duke of Opole, Kazimierz († 1229/30), was to capture this fortress and exterminate the robbers, and erect a hunting manor in this place, which was later expanded into a magnificent castle, next to which the city developed. There is a grain of truth in every legend. Archaeological research confirms that there was probably a wooden castle in the place of today's castle in the 13th century. It acted as a watchtower guarding the crossing over the Biała River and the intersections of important trade routes: the salt route from Kraków to Cieszyn, to Moravia and the Czech Republic, and the route from Upper Silesia through Żywiec to Hungary. In the second half of the fourteenth century, the watchtower, destroyed by fire, was replaced by a brick castle, erected by the Duke of Cieszyn, Przemysław I Noszak († 1410). The building, from the beginning included in the Bielsko fortification system, being the strongest element of its fortifications, represented the type of the so-called city castle. At the same time, it played an important role as a Silesian border fortress: the nearby Biała River divided the district principalities of Cieszyn and Oświęcim from 1316, it became the Czech-Polish state border in the mid-15th century, and in the years 1526–1772 it separated the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The castle in Bielsko, gradually expanded and transformed over time, served as one of the seats of the Cieszyn Piasts for over two centuries. In 1572, it became the administrative and economic center of the independent Bielsko state state (Latin status minor), ruled by representatives of the noble families of Promnitz (1572-1582), Schaffgotsch (1582-1592), Sunnegh (1592-1724), Solms (1728- 1742) and Haugwitz (1742–1752). From the end of the 16th century, it was more and more transformed into a noble residence, without losing its defensive values: despite being burnt by the Swedes at the end of the Thirty Years' War (1646), it was still considered one of the most important in Silesia in 1689. https://muzeum.bielsko.pl/pl/historia-muzeum-zamek https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeum_Historyczne_w_Bielsku-Bia%C5%82ej_%E2%80%93_Zamek_ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%85t_Su%C5%82kowskich

The castle in Łodygowicach is located in the surroundings of a park on the river Żylica. Built in the 17th century by the castellan of Kraków, Jerzy Zbaraski. Previously, a wooden manor house of the Komorowski family, who owned the surrounding area from the mid-16th century, stood in its place. Over the next years, the castle changed both its owners and appearance many times. Originally it was a defensive castle, surrounded by an earthen rampart, a moat and bastions in the corners, which made it a fortress difficult to get. In 1866. the castle was purchased by Klementyna Primovesi de Weber, wife of Adolf Klobus, an Austrian major. They thoroughly rebuilt the fortress for their own needs. As a result of the reconstruction, the castle lost its military significance, and part of the fortifications was pulled down. The Klobus family owned Łodygowice with its adjoining areas until the death of the last descendant of Otto Klobus in 1942. In 1939, the staff of the German army was stationed in the castle, and in 1945 the castle's equipment was stolen. Currently, the castle building has been converted into a cultural institution. The castle has a neo-gothic style. In the park surrounding the castle, you can still come across the still visible old fortifications, i.e. the remains of earth bastions, embankments and moats. The castle has two storeys. The entrance to the castle leads through arcades with a balcony above them. http://www.lodygowice.pl/kompleks-palacowo-parkowy- https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dw%C3%B3r_w_%C5%81odygowicach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZ3746RrCo

The Museum in BielskoBielsko-Biała is located in the historic Sulkowski-Sulkowski Castle. Several museum branches have been added since the 1970s.