Built 1177–79 | Architectural style Gothic architecture | |
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Location Oświęcim, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in Poland Similar Soła, Auschwitz‑Birkenau Memorial and Muse, Auschwitz concentration camp, Malbork Castle, Oświęcim Synagogue | ||
Oświęcim Castle (Polish: Zamek w Oświęcimiu) is a castle raised in the Medieval Ages on the top of a hill, on the right bank of the River Soła in Oświęcim.
The castle compromises a thirteenth-century early-Gothic defence tower covered by a roof, a two-floor building built around a courtyard (with the old wing from the beginning of the sixteenth century) and additional connections between the wings built in 1929–31. Most of the fortifications around the castle were destroyed due to the changing river course of the River Soła.
On the top of the hill where the castle is located there are remains of the fortifications. There are two tunnels located underneath the castle, the older (built before 1914) and the second which was excavated by the Germans (1940–1944). The tunnels were used as bunkers.