Top 4 Castles around gmina gmina Mielnik

it's worth climbing the mountain next to it, there's a beautiful view

Location on route 640, Olendry, Siemiatycze, pay attention to forest parking lots (you can drive through), I got here from the footbridge, leaving route no. 19. There is a building here, from which you can admire an amazing view. The rest is individual taste. Mr. Jerzy, an art enthusiast, built this place. From my observation, it appears that tourists and natives like to visit this place.

At the foot of Góra Zamkowa are the ruins of the castle church, founded in 1420 by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas. The church was built next to the castle and served a defensive function. It is an oriented building, built in the late Gothic style, made of brick with the use of field stones. In the second half of the 16th century, the castle church was thoroughly rebuilt and re-consecrated in 1618. In 1657, the temple, together with the entire archive, burned down. After the wars, in 1669, its reconstruction began. It is likely that during the new consecration, the church's name was changed to the Holy Trinity. In 1851, the castle church was abandoned. After the January Uprising in 1866, it was closed for five years, and in 1871 it was transformed into an Orthodox church of the Holy Spirit. In 1915, the church burned down. Although it was returned to the Catholic parish as part of the restitution campaign in the interwar period, it was never rebuilt. In the interwar period, a chapel of St. Anthony was set up in the sacristy, which was destroyed in 1941. During this period, the walls of the church were also partially demolished. Currently, the ruins of the church are one of the most interesting tourist attractions in Mielnik. Near the ruins of the castle church, there is also a building of the former Catholic rectory. Like the church, the rectory is a brick building, plastered and erected on a fieldstone foundation. The fate of the building from around the second half of the 18th century is closely linked to the fate of the castle church. When the church was regained by the Catholic parish in the 20th century, the rectory became a place of residence for priests. Since the 1950s, it has served as a residential building for priests and as a catechetical house. The building has been unused since the 1970s.

amazing place, makes an impression! mini gallery inside!

Amazing place

The ruins of a church situated on what was once known as the Low Castle are located at the foot of the hillfort. The church was likely founded by Grand Duke Vytautas in 1420. It was destroyed and rebuilt numerous times during wars. It finally burned down in 1915. The first traces of human settlement in the Mielnik commune date back to the Neolithic period. The "gold" of that era, flint found in the chalk, attracted people here. Permanent settlement dates back to the 11th-12th centuries. The Mielnik hillfort was likely founded in 1038 during the expedition of Grand Prince Yaroslav of Kiev against the Yotvingians. The name Mielnik /Mielnica/ appears for the first time in the Ipatievsky Chronicle in 1240, when the Tatars destroyed the castle of Mielnik, and for the second time in 1260, where the Russian prince of Galicia-Volhynia, Danilo, prayed before the icon of the Savior Izbavnik /Christ the Savior and Redeemer/.

A must-see place!

Great view of the Bug River with quite easy access. The ruins of the church are now neglected. Anyway, this is the most important viewpoint.