Posted by Damir [ 213.202.115.63 ] on March 20, 2006 at 07:42:59:
In Reply to: Re: Another... :-) posted by colinhester on March 20, 2006 at 07:05:04:
Hi, thanks. Last time I was there (about 1990.) everything was different, and as I remember, better preserved. From the bushy forest you can`t actually see the tower, and it was difficult to find it. It was the "war zone" `91., and as I said "mines suspected area", and I came here not before yesterday, after about 16 years.
But, lumberjacks were here recently...argh...at least, they "cleaned" the tower, but I suspect that field erosy will be worse than trees/bush.
The name of the tower is "Stone-City", it belonged to various noble families during 15th-16th centuries, then Turks captured it. The Austrian and local army won them in 17th century, after the siege. There`re a few close hills, and cannons fire did it. It was a large castle, with multiple outside walls ("star" shaped), and inside tower.
For centuries, few villages (5-6 km distance) built their houses with castle stones, pitty.
This castle is mentioned many times in (local) history books like very important, and on important roads (?!). Today, it is far away from any road, deep in woods and on 612m hill - how the things changes?!
There is a (small) hope for preservation of those old castles and old woods, this area is a "park of nature", somewhat less then "national park"...
Artifacts - no, I didn`t search for it, there`re probably a few meters of soil over the real, old yard level.
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