Chervonogorodsky castle

Before the spread of artillery, the cape in the canyon of Dzhuryn was almost impregnable for the attack of enemy armies. Defensive fortifications on the cape in the canyon of the city of Dzhuryn presumably existed in ancient Russian times. In the fourteenth century. Koriatovichi strengthen Podillia with new fortifications. In Chervonohorod, they probably built a wooden castle. From the second half of the 16th century, the city of Chervonohorod was the center of the eponymous eldership of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Lviv castellan Mykolai Danylovych built a stone castle with towers here. His son Stanislav occupied the government of the headman of Chervonohorod. The development of artillery led to the loss of the military significance of the local castle. Turkish occupation of Podillia in the second half of the XVII century led to the final decline of the town and the destruction of the castle.

During the reign of the Austrian Empire, Chervonohorod became a provincial town. In 1778 the Austrian government sold the castle to Karol Poninsky. In 1820, he dismantled two towers and part of the castle fortifications, and built a family palace on their foundations. Kalikst Poninsky continued reconstruction. He dismantled the old castle towers and rebuilt them. According to some sources, the author of the perestroika project was T. Matlovsky, according to others, Yulian Zakharevych. The decoration and crowns for the towers were made and brought from Lviv. You can still see lancet “Gothic” windows in the towers. The interiors of the palace were decorated in the Empire style. The palace was surrounded by a park with a fountain.

Kalikst Poninsky shocked the then nobility by marrying the daughter of his forester Karolina Sokolovska. They lived in Lviv, and only came here to relax. Kalikst had no children, so the palace passed to his sister Karolina and the Liubomyrski’s family. Before World War I, the palace was owned by Maria Liubomyrska. During the war, russian soldiers lodged here, plundering the interiors and damaging the battlements of the towers. In the 1920s, a rural teacher and his family lodged in the palace. During the Soviet period, the palace was dismantled for building materials during the construction of a collective farm in the neighboring village of Nyrkiv. To date, the object does not have any conservation status.