Description of the attraction
The Dobromil castle (Herburt castle) is located on the top of a steep and high, overgrown with beech forest, Blind Mountain, which is four kilometers northeast of the city of Dobromil, Lviv region. Among all the castles of the Lviv region, there is not a single castle raised to a height of more than 500 m above sea level, except for Dobromilsky
On the outskirts of the Lviv region, 10 km from the Ukrainian-Polish border, there is the old village of Dobromil, near which in 1450, on the lands donated by Vladislav Opolsky to the Herburt family, Nikolai Herburt built the first wooden castle, around which a new settlement arose, called Ternava. In 1497, during the Tatar invasions, the castle along with the settlements of Ternava and Dobromil was destroyed. After some time, the settlements rose from the ruins and over the next 100 years developed rapidly. Artisans and merchants moved to Dobromil, the production of salt and high-quality cloth was established.
The next owner from the Herburt family was Jan Herburt, who built stone fortifications on the site of a collapsed wooden castle, partially preserved to this day. In its shape, the structure resembled a horseshoe. The castle was surrounded on three sides by stone walls with towers.
After Dobromil in 1622. passed to the Polish magnates Konetspolsky, the castle was rebuilt using brick, not stone. This was the last reconstruction of the castle, after which it became smaller and lost its corner towers. In the 19th century, the castle was no longer used for its intended purpose, but it held out well even before the Second World War.
Today only majestic ruins remain from the powerful Dobromilsky castle. Only a part of the walls, whose thickness reaches two meters, an octagonal entrance tower, as well as the foundations of the other three towers and a moat, have survived to this day.
