Kajaani Castle

The Kajaani castle turned into built at the Ammakoski island of the Kajaani river inside the centre of Kajaani, Finland, inside the seventeenth century. Today, most effective roofless ruins continue to be of the fort. The fort functioned as an administrative centre, a jail, and a navy strongpoint. The maximum famous prisoner inside the citadel changed into the historian Johannes Messenius, who become compelled to live inside the negative conditions of the castle from 1616 to 1635. Construction of the Kajaani castle commenced in 1604 and became finished in 1619.

At first the fortress most effective consisted of a stone wall, two round towers, and wood buildings on the backyard within the fortress. Count Peter Brahe ordered a 2d production degree of the fort, which turned into commenced in the 1650s and completed in 1666. During this production stage, many wood systems of the castle have been replaced with stone structures to shape a fort. During the Great Northern War, Russian forces sieged the fort for several months, until it was in the end pressured to give up because of loss of food, firewood and ammunition. Shortly after this, the Russians exploded the castle and its inhabitants have been transported to Russia to be imprisoned.