Dubingiai Castle

Dubingiai Castle
Dubingiai Castle
Dubingiai, Lithuania
	The remains of Dubingiai Castle on the island, an 1870 drawing by Napoleon Orda
Type	Renaissance
Site information
Condition	the foundations have survived
Site history
Built	1413; early 16th century
Demolished	late 17th century - early 20th century

Dubingiai Castle was a residential castle in

Molėtai district, Lithuania

.

The first

Radziwiłł family until the second half of the 17th century, when it was transferred to Biržai Castle

.

During the

Polish–Swedish wars, the castle was pillaged by armies loyal to the King of Poland and was confiscated from Bogusław Radziwiłł. It returned to the family in the second half of the 17th century. The neglected castle and church gradually fell into ruins. It was sold to Michał Tyszkiewicz in 1808. Today only the foundations and several cellars

of the castle and church remain and are being researched.

The masonry

archaeological

excavations in 2004 and reburied there on 5 September 2009.