Koretz 2010
Koretz, now the regional center of the Rivne region, lies right on the highway Kyiv-Lviv. Hence, clearly visible gold-domed churches, which are better road signs lead to the city center.
Name of the settlement was first mentioned in chronicles in 1150 Ipatyevski Saw Koretz many princes: and Danilo Galitsky, and Theodore of Ostrog, who, in fact, ordered to establish a well-fortified castle on the site of the old fort. From the XV century. town was in possession of the princes Koretsky, Leszczynski, Czartoryski. Last of the masters, Jozef Czartoryski, at the end of the XVIII century. Koretz did one of the most beautiful and most powerful industrial cities of Volhynia. He founded a furniture factory, an art tradition which ran until the mid nineteenth century. And most importantly - built on the outskirts of Yuzefin porcelain factory, whose products were very popular far beyond the region.
Porcelain, which had been worked about thousands of workers under the leadership of the French masters Mezer, was not inferior to the Saxon, and was better than the Viennese. But in 1796 a fire destroyed the company, but after the death of Joseph Chartoryisky no one was able to revive the former glory Koretsky porcelain. Yes, and the town over the next two centuries, gradually lost their importance.
Koretsky srossya lock tightly with the harsh granite cliffs rising to several tens of meters above the valley of the river Korchik. At this place of Ostrog in his time built a wooden castle, and Volyn Governor Bogush Koretsky in the first half of XVI century. fortified its walls. Regular, bastion of the castle from the mainland was surrounded by a deep moat with a drawbridge leading to the fortress. In XVII-XVIII centuries. Castle substantially rebuilt. The latest, greatest restructuring implemented in the 1780 Princes Czartoryski, resulting in the castle was adapted by the prince's palace with fashionable at the time of baroque decoration. It is from those times have come to us the remnants of the outer stone walls and beautiful arched stone bridge. Partially preserved and dungeons - mandatory multi-part medieval castle. In 1832, in Korets Castle caught fire, and since then it is no longer restored.
