Chechersk. Castle Hill.

Castle Hill has been preserved to this day, a mute witness to its former greatness. Castle Hill stands out clearly against the background of the surrounding area. The Chechera River flows nearby, the name of which is clearly related to the name of the city.

The inscription on the boulder next to the Castle Hill reads: Chechersk began here in 1159. The following tablet indicates that there was a settlement on the site of modern Chechersk as early as the third millennium BC.

Castle Hill is located on the right bank of the Chechera River and occupies part of a high coastal plateau. It has the shape of a circle with an area of 0.5 hectares. The settlement is separated by a wide and deep moat from the rest of the coastal area occupied by the roundabout city. Archaeological research shows that already in the Neolithic period there was a settlement on the Castle Hill of Chechersk. People lived there in both the Bronze and Iron Ages. Since then, the mountain has not been empty.: She was "settling in" with her ancestors. These places could well have been the center of the legendary Radimich tribe. The date and image of the ancient wooden fortress have not survived to us, but it was majestic and soared over the floodplain of the Chechera, which flows into the Sozh River in these places. It withstood more than one siege, but was destroyed.

Later, on the site of the ancient detinets on Castle Hill, a fortified castle grew up, separated from the city by a moat. All that is known about the castle is that it was built of wood and had three entrance towers - Zamkovaya, Velikaya and Podolnaya. The castle walls were plastered with clay, which prevented them from catching fire from fire arrows. The castle had eight wooden towers, including one three-storey one - the Bram tower and the prison. And above the moat that surrounded the castle there was a swing bridge from the castle side. The last mention of the castle was in 1765. Due to numerous sieges, the castle was gradually destroyed. The remains of it were finally demolished by Count Chernyshev during the construction of his palace.

In 1787, Count Zachary Chernyshev, who Catherine II, after the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, granted the city, built a palace in the Gothic style. The palace building was representative in nature and had no defensive functions. The palace did not last long - less than 100 years.

There is no fortress, castle, or palace on Castle Hill right now. Among the ancient trees stands a monument to soldiers and partisans who fell in the battles for Chechersk. There is also a mass grave of the defenders of these lands, and an amphitheater has been built at the foot of Castle Hill, where important cultural events of the city take place.

Of the entire structure of the castle, only the moat has survived to this day, and in the place where the bridge was once located, there is now a sand dam along which anyone can cross to Castle Hill and imagine what was on the territory of the ancient castle.

Castle Hill is the main landscape and compositional elements of Chechersk. That's how difficult and unifying Castle Hill is.