Vyborg Castle is a Swedish built medieval fortress near Vyborg, the Leningrad Region. It was one of the three major castles of Finland. It was built as the easternmost outpost of the medieval Kingdom of Sweden in 1293. Currently it is a museum .
Its tower walls were 4 m thick while the fence walls were 1.5 to 2 m thick.
They say that they spent a lot of money to build this castle and make nice finishing inside. They surrounded the castle with a defence wall which formed the so called “lower court”.
The commandant’s house.
One of the south walls. It has been renewed. This anchor belonged to a Swedish ship Elisabeth Charlotta.
The commandant’s house.
The building on the left was used as a jail. In the center there is a central square with a scaffold.
These guns belonged to Elisabeth Charlotta too.
In the castle, there are several painting exhibitions but we will show you its museum of torture instruments.
It’s eerie here.
Prisoners’ skulls.
Torture instruments.
A sarcophagus with pins.
In the office of a torture manager.
In this cage, they would burn people alive!
A rack.
Another cage.
A chair and a wooden wheel to torture ‘witches’ who used to send diseases and storms to the cities.
A ‘shame mask’ to bring the prisoners out and other instruments to make the body parts shorter.
What a joyful time it was…
The Tower of St. Olav has been renewed too.
And this part of it needs renewing badly.
Gloing up its suspicious-looking staircase.
We are on top!
From here, you can enjoy a beautiful view of the old part of Vyborg.
The city and the inner court of the castle.
It looks like a toy city.
The central square looks tiny!
The city hall and a monument to a Swedish King.
A clock tower.
Its old clock is still operational and very accurate.
From time to time, you can hear tolling coming from the tower.
Location: Vyborg
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Cool! …What a joyful time it was… x)))))
It’s distgusting what humans will do to each other.
Long live the Holy Inquisition!
“Nobody expect the Spanish Inquisition!” I just could not resist
love it. monty python rulz!
Everything is so messed up there after russians took Vyborg under control. I’ve seen some old photos from the time when Finland was in rule and I can tell you that Vyborg was once a very beautiful city. Now it’s a total mess, I’ve been there once. Sad…
The sarcophagus with pins is called the “iron maiden”…
“the office of a torture manager” lol… thats what the boss’s office should be called these days…
Religion and torture are bedfellows throughout history.
Vyborg looks nice. Being cut in halves with a cross cut saw must have been very painful. Some cultures cut from the head down, which may have been more humane.
There is a similar illustration showing the uses of that saw inside Kuntskamera in St. Petersburg. Nasty stuff it is. Makes waterboarding look like a day in the park.
Always did like Vyborg. Fun little stop on the way to Helsinki. Sad that it still has not yet been completely restored.
EVIL PLACE.
Pretty ghastly.
But then, nowadays we have Barry Manilow concerts.