Mir Castle Complex

  

The Mirsky Castle Complex is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Belarus. [1] It is located in the town of Mir, in the Karelichy District of the Hrodna voblast, at 53274.46N 262822.80E, 29 km to the north-west from other World Heritage site, Nesvizh Castle. Mir Castle Complex is situated at an elevation of 164 meters.

From 1921 to 1939 the castle was located in Poland.

Duke Yuri Ivanovich Ilyinich  began construction of the castle muggy the village of Mir after the slant of the 16th century in the Gothic architectural style. Five towers surrounded the courtyard of the citadel, the walls of which formed a square of 75 meters approaching each side. In 1568, following the Ilyinich dynasty died out, the Mir Castle passed into the hands of Mikoaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwi, who refitted it once a two-winged, three-gloss stately habitat along the eastern and northern inner walls of the castle. Plastered facades were festooned subsequent to limestone portals, plates, balconies and porches in the Renaissance style.

In 1817, after the castle had been lonely for on a century and had suffered uncompromising irregular in the Battle of Mir (1812), owner Dominik Hieronim Radziwi died of scuffle injuries and the castle passed to his daughter Stefania, who married Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. Later the castle became a possession of their daughter Maria, who married Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfrst.

Their son, Maurice Hohenlohe-Schillingsfrst, sold the castle to Nikolai Svyatopolk-Mirsky, of the Bialynia clan, in 1895. Nikolai's son Mikhail began to rebuild the castle according to the plans of architect Teodor Bursze. The Svyatopolk-Mirsky intimates owned the castle until 1939, gone the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland.

When German forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they occupied the castle and converted it to a ghetto for the local Jewish population, prior to their liquidation. Between 1944 and 1956, the castle was used as a housing knack, resulting in damage to the castle's interior.

In December 2000, the Mir Castle was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site