Majkowice - village in Poland, located in voivodeship of Lodz, in Piotrków County, in the commune of Handno.
Information
Geographic coordinates: 51 ° 10′05 ″ N 19 ° 53′00 ″ E
The town is located right next to the south-eastern border of the Łódź Province, further there is the area Konecki CountyŚwiętokrzyskie voivodeship.
About 1 km to the west, it flows Pilica.
Drive
The village is located east of road 742 Przygłów – Przedbórz.
Worth seeing
The village has been known since 1398, and was mentioned for the first time in 1491 a brick knight's castle called Surdęga, erected on the Pilica River, belonged then to the Nagodzic family.
Later, the castle was owned by the castellan of Spicymyr, Florian the Gray. The castle was inhabited and performed its defensive functions from the 14th century to the beginning of the 16th century. Then it fell into ruin and most of the traces of the castle were destroyed by the Germans during the fortification of the defense line on the Pilica River in 1944.
In the register of monuments National Heritage Institute there is only one object: Renaissance castle (in ruin) from the second quarter of the 16th century, built on a hill at the south-eastern edge of the village, approx. 1 km west of Pilica, reg.no .: 738 from December 27, 1967.
The ruins of the castle, or rather the Renaissance defensive manor of the Majkowski family, erected in the 16th century, have survived to this day. Built on a square plan, built of stone and brick, details and corners are made of stone blocks. There was an entrance gate in one of the corners. From the east and south it had prominent projections, and in the north-west corner it had a three-storey tower, in the lower storey on a circular plan, in the middle part octagonal, and in the upper parts square, with arrowslits, connected to the outer court by a communication porch. The outer walls at the corners are reinforced with buttresses, partially preserved in parts from the north and east, up to two storeys. In the remaining walls, fragments of Renaissance stone window frames have been preserved. There are two barrel vaulted cellars on the ground floor.
Nearby, among the marshy meadows above the pilgrimage site, you can find a cone-shaped settlement, a remnant of a fortified settlement that has existed since the middle of the 19th century. 13th to 1st half 14th century stronghold. Conical in the motte type, it was a defensive knight's seat, surrounded by a moat and a rampart with a wooden knight's residential tower.
Where next
- Bąkowa Góra - ruin of the castle and the manor house, 2 km south on the 742 road,
- Fałków - a ruin of a 17th-century fortified manor, 25 km away,
- Jawora nature reserve at a distance of 2 km,
- Wielkopole nature reserve 7 km north
- Przedbórz - the town is situated on both sides of the Pilica river, the church of st. Alexius from 1278, the Classicist town hall, the remains of the royal castle of the 14th century, an inn from the 18th century (museum), 7 km south by road 742,
- Handno - a holiday village, a baroque church from the beginning of the 20th century In the 18th century, at a distance of 1.5 km, the Czantoryja hill is 270 m above sea level, covered with a dense forest, quarries in which chalk sandstones are exposed.
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