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Brzeg Castle is located in Brzeg, Opole Voivodeship, Poland. Now a museum, the structures includes the Piast dynasty mausoleum. [2] Geography. Brzeg Castle is located on a cliff to the west of the Oder River, in the city of Brzeg on the border of Lower Silesian Voivodeship and the Opole Voivodeship provinces in southwestern Poland.
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The Brzeg Castle is referred to as the Silesian Wawel. The castle-complex includes the Chapel of St. Jadwiga of Poland. St. Nicholas's Church (Gothic architectural style). Holy Cross Church (on old castle square), (Baroque architectural style). St. Jadwiga's Church, located by the castle.
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St. Jadwiga's Church in Brzeg, Poland, is a Gothic castle church built in the fourteenth-century. The Gothic brick-built chapel, adjoined to the south-western portion of Brzeg Castle was built in the former location of a collegiate church of St Hedwig built between 1368 and 1369.
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Brzeg, city, Opolskie województwo (province), southwestern Poland, situated on high bluffs on the western side of the Oder River. An important Silesian settlement from the 14th century, when Prince Ludwik I built his castle there, Brzeg was the home of the Piast family, rulers of the duchy of Brzeg.
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plac Zamkowy 1, Brzeg, Poland. See all sites in Brzeg. Founded: 1235. Category: Castles and fortifications in Poland. en.wikipedia.org. Earliest records of the Brzeg castle's existence describe a small fortress with a moat and fortified walls, built in 1235 during the reign of Henry I ...
- plac Zamkowy 1, Brzeg, Poland
The castle in Brzeg is currently an exceptional monument, one of the most beautiful Renaissance buildings in Silesia. Its current shape comes from the reconstruction and extension carried out in the years 1532 – 1560. Among the original medieval elements you can see only the four-sided Tower of Lions and the Gothic chancel of castle chapel.
Also called the 'Silesian Wawel', this castle a 20th-century reconstruction of Renaissance castle. Some remaining original elements are considered to be one of the most magnificent Renaissance monuments in Poland.
