About the castle of St. George

Edvardas Gudavičius

Summary

The location question of St. George’s castle, erected by Theutonic Order (and signified by Peter Dusburg 1259), isn’t resolved. Untill the last years predominated opinion backed by coincidence of settlement names, that the fourteen-century castle Georgenburg of the Theutonic Order stood on the same place like the castle of St. George. Now arise although the doubts based on the strategic ground: at that time Order’s possibilities to erect castle in such distance were too exigue. R. Batūra defending the traditional opinion doesn’t assess the war circumstances of the middle thirteenth-century. The Order without the fleet coodn’t erect the castle on the banks of Nemunas there. The Livonian branch of Order didn’t possess the amendable fleet, the Prussian branch commenced to use his fleet in Nemunas in 70th years only. R. Batūra’s review of archeology and geology of the Jurbarkas’ locality gives no regard to the report of Ragnit’s commendator (1406), who mentions a ruin of Georgenburg on the bank of river Mituva (in Jurbarkas).

Įteikta 2005 03 07

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