Castles

Wieluń Castle

Of the Kazimierz-era castle in Wieluń only Gothic cellars survive, but their story reaches back to the times when the town was the capital of the Wieluń Land. Chronicler Jan of Czarnków credits the building of the brick stronghold to Casimir the Great, who after the town fire of 1335 ringed Wieluń with walls and a castle; the first stronghold was already mentioned in 1311.

A castle inside the town

The stronghold was embedded in the town walls and served as a centre of royal estates and justice — documents from 1388 and 1393 refer to it as in castro Vielunensi. In 1656 the Swedes set it on fire in revenge for the town's recapture; it was rebuilt afterwards.

A fire started by oil

On 18 March 1791 the castle burned down for the second time — the cause was cooking oil. Only the tower and wall fragments survived. In 1837 Fryderyk August Goleński erected a classicist palace on the old foundations, with a portico resting on four columns.

Practical

The building on Królewska Street, in the park next to the town hall, now houses the county and municipal offices. The interiors are working offices, but the portico and the cellars, entered in the monuments register in 1967, deserve a look from outside at any time of day.