Title of Product:

Art of XVI century, the Castle in Rybnica

Image of the product:

Name of Author(s): Jacek Bednarek

Name of Producer: Net periodic: “zamkipolskie.com”

Language/s of Product: Polish

Website of the product: www.zamkipolskie.com/

Target Group: General audience

Overall Evaluation: excellent

Availability of community:
Newsgroup

Objectives & Structure:
Aspects to consider:
- The website gives an imagination's ideas according the old castles' functioning
- Finding the famous heroes of the historical past time and their “radiative influence”
- Castles, significant establishment and foundations
- Possibility of following up with history by inspiring “castle- stanzas”

Description of contents:
In the Medieval German chronicles the castle in Rybnica was called Laudis. Palatium, or Lausepelz, translated from the dialect of Luzyce- Lausche Polske, what signified a notion of the bald mountain. However, not too much is known about the circumstances of the castle's founding and its genesis. Among the scientists, an opinion is dominating that the process of building that protective building was initiated by the Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg himself in the 60s of XIV century. He is supposed to have visited the place in 1365. The castle was then a property or was rented by Nicola von Reybnicz, a member of the knight family von Reibnitz governing the village from 1288.

Evaluation and Comments:

Description of how the website can be used with the students::
- Students can compare various hypotheses and points of commentaries according the castles' genesis and their fundamental “core of action”.
- The discussions and plotting one motives with other could be very inspiring.

Comments::
The satisfaction of picturesque and mysterious side of history is a question of big appreciation among the students and calls for their further creative actions.

Evaluation Date: 01.09.2008.

Name of teacher: Antoni Woźniak

Name of School: LO number 3

Country: Poland Fine Arts

Subjects Taught: Fine Arts