Slimnic Castle

The eponymous castle was built in the 14th century on a dome-shaped hilltop, southeast of the village centre. It extends in the north-south direction over the entire dome-shaped hilltop. The oldest part is a Gothic chapel with a squat, polygonal choir, above which a square three-storey bell tower was built. The construction of a Gothic hall church was initiated farther to the south, but was probably never completed. What has been preserved is the south wall of the nave and of the southern aisle, with pointed arcades in the basement and in the upper storey. The west wall with lancet windows displays rows of machicolation, pointing to the fact that the church attic, too, was supposed to be fortified. The portcullis-protected entrance to the fortress was situated in the north-east section of the enclosing wall and led through a tunnel under the church choir into the southern courtyard, which then further led under a tower into a fountain ward. The sexton’s house is attached to the west wall of the northern courtyard and is still inhabited at present. The walls are supported by slender buttresses.