Tudorów

Poland, Poland

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Tudorów is a village in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, famous for the ruins of its medieval knight's tower castle first mentioned in 1371 court records as "castrum Tudorow" during a dispute over mill dams, likely built mid-14th century by knight Pełka of the Janina clan to control the Opatówka River valley. Passing through owners like the Szydłowieccy (1517), Tarnowscy via marriage, Ostrogscy, Lubomirscy, and Sanguszkowie, the Gothic stone tower—originally defensive with narrow slits—saw 16th-century residential conversions and mid-17th-century re-fortification including an artillery embrasure and western earthworks before Swedish Deluge destruction led to abandonment. Today, the 20-meter tower with visible ground-level walls, courtyard paving, ramparts, and a szańec stands as a prime example of a Piast-era rycerska rezydencja amid overgrown landscape.