Built in XIII century, was the base of the castellan and later of Prince Bolko I and his successors, and from 1392 of the royal starosts of the district. From XVI century it was the base of the imperial deputy. Damaged after the Thirty-year War the castle was rebuilt by Otto von Nostitz to the form of a modern residence. His ambition was to create a base imitating the Viennese court, but further rebuilds from XVIII and XIX century faded away the shape of a baroque residence. Up to this day the only part of a renaissance character is the west wing, and of a baroque one - the north-east wing. Since 1746 till the end of the 1950-ties there was a prison in here (in the years 1888–1945 only for women). During the World War II the members of the Resistance from Norway and France were imprisoned here which is commemorated by a monument situated in the courtyard.

View a gallery: The Piastowski Castle