Embut Castle

It is one of the highest hills in the area. The castle occupied the entire top of the hill. Its area is 30 by 50 meters. On the perimeter of the hill was a fortress wall, from which to this day nothing has survived. There was a residential building in the northeast corner. The lower part of the building was built of boulders, the upper part of brick. The width of the wall from the side of the cliff was 1.7 meters, from the side of the yard 0.8 meters. In the XVIII century, a palace was built on the foundation of the old building. In the nineteenth century, it was expanded. The entrance was on the northeast slope.

There were two towers at the entrance. The diameter of the tower was 7 meters, and the interior was 3.7 meters. The thickness of the wall reached 1.5 meters. The tower was built of various materials - the lower part is entirely of boulders, and the upper of bricks with a backfill inside boulders with lime mortar. There were no slaughterhouses at the tower.

According to historians, the Bishop of Pilten took part in the construction of the castle. In 1576 the castle passed to Credener. The rich vassal of the Bishop of Corfu did not like it. One night he attacked Embut Castle and chased away Credener. The Piltene bishop ordered Corfu to return the castle, but Corf appealed to the Polish king for help. On May 31, 1583, Colonel Oborski occupied the castle and returned it to Corfu. On August 21, 1583, the Polish King Stefan Batory, for services to Poland, gave the castle and the surrounding area to the son of the brother of the Duke of Courland Gotthard Ketler Wilhelm Ketler. In 1595, the Polish king Sigismund II Augustus confirmed the right to property with permission to the Ketler family to sell or lease Embut Castle. In 1653, the Ketlers sold the castle to Lieutenant Colonel Emerych von Marbach. His family owned the castle until 1846. Since the XVIII century, the castle has become the center of the estate, but it was already a new palace, built in the early XVIII century. The last owner of the estate was the family of Baron Hans von Hahn.

The old castle was most likely destroyed during the Northern War, in 1702. At the beginning of the XVIII century, the fortress walls and entrance towers were partially preserved from the castle. In the XIX century, one of the towers was demolished, and in its place a square extension to the palace building was built from brick. After World War II, the local collective farm began to use stones for the construction of other facilities. In 1920 there was a fire, after which the castle was no longer restored. Its remains are partially preserved to this day.