Mitavsky Palace, whose construction was launched in 1740 Duke Ernst Biron by the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli, is currently one of the distinctive character of Jelgava. And before that, in place of the palace is a medieval castle, built by German crusaders.
first fortified construction on the territory current Jelgava was a wooden castle. In Jelgava the historical museum has its image, but the network thereof discover I could not. Building Stone the castle was begun in 1265 by the then Master of the Livonian Konrad von Mandernom. The first written mention mitavskogo lock occurs in the so-called Chronicle Wartenberg, "which describes what took refuge in the castle Mithow team orders' brothers after the attack on one of the nearby settlements Semigallians.
In second quarter of the 14 th century Master of the Order Eberhard von Mongeym completes construction mitavskogo castle, which is now a construction 30h35 m, in each of the four corners of which the protective tower.
A few more pictures of the castle somewhere in the middle of the 17 th century to the early 18 th:
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