Brody Fortress
Koniecpolski's five-bastion fortress of 1630–1635 with casemates in the ramparts and the Potocki palace.
In 1629 Stanislaw Koniecpolski bought Brody, and in 1630–1635 a fortress was built here on the model of the new Dutch fortification; it was designed by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan and the Italian Andrea dell'Aqua. In plan it is a pentagon with five bastions and curtain walls, with brick and stone casemates inside the ramparts; around it ran a deep moat. In 1648 the fortress withstood a siege by the Cossack forces of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. In the mid-18th century Stanislaw Potocki rebuilt it as a residence, and a two-storey palace was built at the same time. In 1812 the Austrians, at the request of the russians, who feared Napoleon, blew up the tower with the main gate and the ravelin. In 1939–1940 the Soviet authorities kept a camp for Polish prisoners of war here, later a military unit. Today the palace and part of the ramparts and casemates survive; in 2021 part of the vault of the casemates of the western curtain collapsed.
Some of the casemates are in an unsafe condition (a vault collapsed in 2021).