Vinogradovsky Castle (the other name - Kanka Castle, Ugochansky Castle) - the castle, which was located at the foot of Black Mountain above the town Vinogradov (Transcarpathian region of Ukraine). Only the ruins of the castle survived to the present day.
For the first time the castle is mentioned in an anonymous Hungarian chronicle 903 AD due to the arrival the Hungarians in Tiso - Danubian Plain. At that time it was a fortified hill-fort of the local Slavic leader. In the XI century, due to accession this part of the Transcarpathia in the Hungarian kingdom, on this place was built the castle of the local feudal lord. At the beginning of the XIV century its owner found himself in feudal coalition, which opposed Carl Robert. Due to the royal troops storming the castle suffered greatly. The Hungarian king ordered to repair it, and then he presented it to Queen Mary. Since 1399 Kanka Castle is owned by Baron Pereni, who handed it to Franciscan monks, who turned it into a monastery. They erected a stone fortress on the place of a wooden building. During the period of the Reformation a descendant of Pereni became a Protestant, and Catholic priests were expelled from their possessions. He captured the Franciscan monastery in 1556. The emperor dispatched troops commanded by Telekeshi who stormed and destroyed the castle in 1557. Finally the castle was destroyed in the last third of the XVI century by order of the Austrian imperial power, who at the time actively fought against the Hungarian nobility.
Length of the castle 50 meters, width - 44.6 meters. The castle had a rectangular-shaped with massive square towers at the corners.
Photos by admiral and Yaroslava.
