Ruiny zamku w Kryłowie

The castle occupies the island and was laid out on a triangular plan, with a forward defensive element set between the northern and southern projecting bastions. The defensive ensemble was executed in brick and earth, following the conversion from the earlier timber phase to permanent masonry in the late fifteenth century. Surviving earthworks and fragments of wall trace the original island enclosure and underline the layout that archaeologists have recorded.

Three main bastions marked the fortress. The largest, to the north, rose to two storeys and was built of brick with walls measuring several meters in thickness, recorded as reaching two to three meters. A smaller bastion stood to the south. To the east, a masonry structure combining brickwork and earth was reconstructed in 2016 and stands today as a restored portion of the original outer defences. Fragments of brick walling and raised defensive ramparts remain in situ and show the scale of the masonry work.

The 19th-century single-storey palace south of the castle measured roughly forty-five by forty meters and was set within a park that included a garden pavilion. Its foundations were exposed during the 2016 excavations; the house itself had been destroyed in the last war and its ruined fabric removed around 1950. The landscape retains the park setting and the gate that provided access to it.

Park access is still marked by a neo-Gothic gateway accompanied by a small gatekeeper’s house. The gate bears two coats of arms, Korczak attributed to the Horodyski family and Leliwa associated with T. Wodzicka, which are visible on the entrance construction. Archaeological interventions in 1960 and 2016 documented these surviving elements and the buried traces of the palace and fortifications.