Museum Zviahel Castle

At the beginning of the 16th century, the city of Zviahel was owned by the princes of Ostroh. It was Prince Konstantin Ivanovich Ostrohsky who began to build the Zviahel castle in 1507, around which the city spread out. The castle was located on a high cliff above the Sluch River and had high defensive capabilities. It was built of stone, unlike others, according to the most modern at that time old Italian, bastion-bastei type.
This was the first and almost the only castle of this type in Volyn. But Konstantin Ostrohskyi managed to lay only the foundation in stone, everything else was wooden. The brick walls and towers were the work of the younger son of Konstantin Ivanovych Ostrohsky, the most prominent national figure of the Renaissance, Vasyl-Konstantyn Ostrohsky (1526-1608), who was the owner of the castle in 1542-1603.

The construction of the castle was completed only at the end of the 16th century. It was consecrated on June 11, 1595.

In 1600, Zviahel became the part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. During the War of Liberation under the leadership of Bogdan Khmelnytsky, in the summer of 1648 the castle was captured empty (without a garrison) by local rebels led by the local furrier Mykhailo Tysha (Tyshyk, Tyshko).

From September 1648 to August 1649 the castle was the center of the Zviahel regiment led by acting colonel Ivan Donets and territorial Zviahel colonels Mykhailo Tysha and Gerasym Yatskevich.

In the 1820s the castle became the property of the Lubomirsky feudal lords. In 1738 Stanislav Lubomirsky transformed the military defensive structure into a hunting castle. And in 1753 the part of the castle wall was dismantled and a church was built from this stone.

In Soviet times, the picturesque places, where the ruins of Zviahel Castle were located, were used as recreation areas. The tower and part of the fortress walls were later reconstructed, and the adjacent territory was landscaped and transformed into a recreation area.