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Rybnik Castle

Name: Rybnik Castle
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Location: Rybnik, Rybnik, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

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1. Main POST OFFICE – Rybnik Market Square loop from Orzepowice

8.31km

02:07

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2. Main POST OFFICE – Rybnik Market Square loop from Rybnicka Kuźnia

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02:42

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3. St. Anthony's Basilica – Rybnik Market Square loop from Osiedle Martinowiec

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April 2, 2022

Castle in Rybnik - the former castle of the Silesian Piasts located in the city center of Rybnik. It has been rebuilt many times. Currently the seat of the District Court.
Although it is difficult to determine when the first castle in Rybnik was built, on the basis of archaeological research it can be stated that it was built at the end of the 13th century. However, it is believed that already in the 12th century there was a wooden defensive stronghold in this place, erected during the reign of the Duke of Opole and Racibórz, Mieszko I Plątonogi . Initially, it was probably a wooden and earth structure. Since the later castle was small, its earlier wooden form probably was built on a rectangular or square plan with also small sides.
The first mention of the castle in Rybnik comes from 1327. Between 1202 and 1211, the princely couple (Mieszko and Ludmiła) brought to the castle the order of Norbertine nuns, who in the years 1223-1228 ran a school for noble maidens there. In 1228, the Norbertines left Rybnik, moving to Czarnowąsy near Opole.
During the period of regional disintegration, Rybnik first became part of the Racibórz Duchy, then of Opole and Racibórz (1202-1290), and then of the Racibórz Duchy again.
At that time, the castle consisted of a stone and brick house, built on a rectangular plan, with dimensions of 9.4 x 22.8 m, reinforced in the corners. It was still surrounded by earth embankments, and the ponds spilled around it were an additional defensive value. The castle did not have the character of a residence, but was a typical defensive structure with a permanent armed crew. In the fourteenth century, it was expanded.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamek_w_Rybniku

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Rybnik Castle

1. Main POST OFFICE – Rybnik Market Square loop from Orzepowice

2. Main POST OFFICE – Rybnik Market Square loop from Rybnicka Kuźnia

3. St. Anthony's Basilica – Rybnik Market Square loop from Osiedle Martinowiec

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