Kalthaus (Kaltouz)

From this Germanism, denoting a cold house, we would hardly have guessed that it was a fortress that used to be located north of Chernilov in the places where the manor hunting lodge Kalthaus was later built. The fortress was most likely built in the first half of the 1th century, although it cannot be ruled out that it has an even older origin, which we could look for in the second half of the 14th century. The first known owner of this fortress was Nykl...