A wooden fortification stood here by the 11th century, was destroyed in the Mongol invasion of 1241, and was rebuilt. Casimir III the Great replaced it with stone. The infobox gives a 13th-century start and completion in 1348, while the text dates the stone castle to the 14th century. The article names no architect and calls the style Polish Gothic.
It has two towers, one cylindrical and one square, and three layers of walls connected to the city walls, parts of which survive. A fire in 1616 and the Deluge of 1657 damaged it. Demolition was ordered in 1825, but it was declared a monument first, and Count Edward Raczyński partly rebuilt it in the 1830s.
It was restored from 1952 to 1956 and houses the Zagłębie Museum, with collections on armament and castle history.
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