Ternopil Castle

The Ternopil Castle is a stronghold which gave beginning to the town of Ternopil. It changed into constructed inside the 16th century to protect the southern border of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. The castle originated because the house of a Polish nobleman, Jan Amor Tarnow ski, in 1540. Construction works 1540 to 1548 at the marshy bank of the Seret River were authorized by way of King Sigismund the Old. The fort, around which the contemporary town has evolved, became encircled via a timber fence and a deep moat. The latter become related in 1548 to the castle pond.

King Sigismund granted land ownership and rights erecting the fortress to dubded Polish Crown Hetman, Jan Tarnow ski. Concurrently in the valley of Seret river a levee and dam with a bridge crossing had been built, resulting within the circulate pooling, therefore filling a new lake. Out from the north the castle and the city have been blanketed by means of the Rudka River harboring a boggy holm, even as on the southern facet might be Bavorovsky pond which vanished in a later time.