Drahim - Zamek Joannitów
Stare Drawsko, Poland, Poland
Zamek Drahim, known as the Castle of the Knights Hospitaller (Joannitów), stands as Gothic ruins in Stare Drawsko village, northwestern Poland's West Pomeranian Voivodeship, strategically built on a narrow isthmus between Drawsko and Żerdno lakes to guard a key frontier pass.
Erected by the Joannites between 1360-1366 on a 12th-century Slavic Drawians tribe gród site—possibly replacing an earlier wooden fortress—it served as the commandry's capital from 1366 until Polish king Władysław Jagiełło seized it in 1407 after a siege for the knights' disloyalty, converting it into a starostwo grodowe administrative seat.
Functioning under Polish rule for nearly two centuries despite Brandenburg claims, it added 16th-17th century bastions before a 1758 fire, Prussian occupation post-1772 partition, and stone quarrying led to its decline into overgrown remnants today.
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DW163 14, 78-552 Stare Drawsko, Poland
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