Pomoriany

The Pomoriany Castle was built on a hill at the confluence of the Makhnivka River with the Zolota Lypa in the 16th century on the site of a wooden fortress founded in the 15th century by the noble Mykola Svynka.

The castle was a two-story, rectangular building with corner towers and a closed courtyard, surrounded on three sides by the channel and marshy floodplain of the river. Along the axis of the northern building on the side of the city was an entrance gate with a tower and a drawbridge.

In 1675 and 1684, the Pomoriany Castle was captured by the Turks, but by 1690 it was restored by the Polish king Yan III Sobesky, becoming one of his favorite residences.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the castle was rebuilt several times, passing through the hands of different owners. The last major reconstruction was carried out at the beginning of the 20th century by Yuriy Potoski, turning the medieval fortress into a luxurious manor with a palace. Two two-story buildings have survived from the old castle. The oldest of them is the eastern one, with a round corner tower. The later, southern one, has an open gallery on the side of the yard, completed in the 18th-19th centuries. In the round tower with a tented roof there are stairs leading to the second floor. In the walls of the tower, loopholes on four levels have been preserved.

During the Second World War, the Gestapo was housed in the building, and after the arrival of Soviet power, the district committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, then PTU. Restoration was carried out in 1978, but now the Pomoriany Castle is in a deplorable state.