# Reszel Castle

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'''Reszel Castle''' ([Polish](/source/Polish_language): ''Zamek w Reszlu'', {{langx|de|Burg Rößel}}) is a [castle](/source/castle) located in [Reszel](/source/Reszel) by the bank of the river [Sajna](/source/Sajna_(river)), in the south-east of the town.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reszel Zamek|url=https://www.zamki.pl/?idzamku=reszel|website=Zamki|accessdate=6 May 2015}}</ref>

The castle, an [Ordensburg fortress](/source/Ordensburg), was built in between 1350 and 1401 by the [Teutonic Order](/source/Teutonic_Order). The castle was frequently looted, [besieged](/source/Siege) and gained by [Polish](/source/Kingdom_of_Poland_(1385%E2%80%931569)) and Teutonic forces. In the nineteenth century the castle was adapted into a prison, the castle was fully renovated after the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II).

Currently the castle houses the branch of the Museum of the [Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship](/source/Warmian-Masurian_Voivodeship) in [Olsztyn](/source/Olsztyn), ([Polish](/source/Polish_language): ''Muzeum Warmii i Mazur w Olsztynie''), a hotel and a restaurant.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reszel Museum Branch Of Olsztyn (Polish)|url=http://reszel.muzeum.olsztyn.pl/|website=Reszel Muzeum Olsztyn|accessdate=6 May 2015|archive-date=10 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710055846/http://reszel.muzeum.olsztyn.pl/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==

The castle was built by the Bishop of [Warmia](/source/List_of_bishops_of_Warmia), Jan of [Miśnia](/source/Meissen), however the castle's first occupiers where the [Teutonic Knights](/source/Teutonic_Knights). In 1780 a part of the castle was adapted for a prison. In 1806 and 1807 a fire devastated the medieval castle. The castle was reconstructed in 1822, and from then on housing a [Lutheran](/source/Lutheranism) church. During the [interwar period](/source/interwar_period), the castle housed a museum, which is now a modern hotel.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Castle (Polish)|url=http://www.zamek-reszel.com/historia_pl.htm|website=Zamek Reszel|accessdate=6 May 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103074011/http://www.zamek-reszel.com/historia_pl.htm|archivedate=3 January 2013}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Castles in Poland](/source/Castles_in_Poland)

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Category:Castles in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Category:Kętrzyn County

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