Mir Castle Complex
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How it came to be
At Mir in the Grodno region of western Belarus stands a brick castle begun in the Gothic style. Five towers enclose a courtyard 75 metres square. When the Ilyinich family died out in 1568, the castle passed to Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł, who added a three-storey Renaissance residence.
It was later abandoned for nearly a century and badly damaged in the Battle of Mir in 1812, during the Napoleonic wars. The Sviatopolk-Mirsky family bought it in 1895, and the architect Teodor Bursche rebuilt it and laid out a park around it.
In 1941 the German occupiers made the castle a ghetto for the local Jews, who were later murdered. After the war it was used for housing. It was inscribed in December 2000.
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