Ternopil Castle

The Ternopil Castle (Ukrainian Тернопільський замок ) was in 1540 originally the residence of Jan Amor Tarnowski. It was built in the years 1540-1548 on the banks of the Seret River with permission from King Sigismund I (Poland). Around the castle was at that time a wooden fence and a deep moat. This trench was connected in 1548 with the Ternopil lake. The castle is also the center of the city of Ternopil, which developed over the centuries.

In the early 17th century Ternopil went through inheritance in the female line to Tomasz Zamoyski, who gave extensive renovation works. The castle was besieged by the Turks in 1544, 1575, 1589 and 1672. The Ottoman army under İbrahim Paşa Sisman destroyed the castle in 1675 to the extent that only ruins remained. Count Korytowski she built in the 1840s as a summer residence again, whereby he renounced towers, walls and other fortifications.

In March and April 1944, the German side to the " firm position " said city was almost completely destroyed in its reconquest by the Red Army as a result of artillery fire and attack aircraft use. Also the Ternopil Castle was seriously damaged.

After the Second World War, the castle was used from 1956 as a sports school, but later reconstructed and placed under monument protection. In the spring of 2009, the Council of the city of Ternopil dealt with the question of whether it was appropriate to operate the sports school in the walls of the historic building.