Information About Kütahya Castle
Kütahya Castle is a castle from the Byzantines in the city of Kütahya.
Byzantine emperors built a castle on a high and steep hill that dominated the city and fortified them with bastions and took the castle into two floors.
Kutahya Castle is a solid and ornamented structure with a pentagonal shape on a blue and reddish plain rock. It is a castle that stands like a ring on a hill. The castle is around three thousand meters. It is surrounded by steep rock on four sides, with no moat around it but under the fortress walls are the cliffs. To the north-east of the fortress is the Germiyan monument, the Kale-i Bala Mosque, and a fountain.
Kütahya Castle, during the Ottoman government, the grooming military guard and the administration of the castle was given to the administration of the castle lord, the castle land was allocated to the residence of artillery, sewer, pocket soldiers. There were 119 groomed soldiers in the castle. Some of these soldiers, who were found for the protection of the castle, went to the expedition when the troops were needed very much due to the prolongation of the wars and the rest continued to the protection of the castle. The castle was usually given to those who had served in the palace and deserved retirement. Apart from the grooming, the castle dancer had some land with the name of quarry. This land would pass to their son and grandchildren. Dizdar, the Sultan was appointed by the edict. Dizdar, other than the quarry of Kütahya jizya goods also took a daily wage. 7,600 akçar grooming from Karaağaç and other villages of Altıntaş sub-district belonged to Kütahya fortress. In addition to the castle, there were castle fortresses, artillery heads, pocket heads, dungeons and janitors.
IV. During the 16-year long war that started during Mehmed period, the soldiers who took part in the fortress were sent to the front due to the depletion of military resources. Later, this application was abandoned and a certain fee was charged instead. At the beginning of 1698, the line from the Plovdiv desert was ordered to send a levend for each soldier to his place or to give thirty cents as a levend, then this amount was reduced to ten cents. With a decree in 1804, the Nizam-ı Cedid organization was connected to the Üsküdar Quarry (Selimiye).
Since the castle was also in prison, the criminals who came from Kütahya and its environs and from other places were imprisoned here. The rebels drowned and threw a ball from the castle to signal the ring. The son and brother of Gediz Vojvodas Nasuhzâde Nasuh, who occupied the state very much, were imprisoned in Kütahya Castle upon the order of Alaaddin Pasha, the governor of Anatolia, and 50 soldiers were placed in his custody.
The castle was inspected by the Anatolian governor at least once a year. How many guards, prisoners, guns, ammunition and so on would be registered by the governor by inspection, and if necessary, he held responsible persons.
Kutahya Castle had two arsenals and two artillery spaces. In 1817, the castle had seventeen guns, howitzer and mortar. Two cannon to the southeast and northeast of the castle are used during Ramadan.
Lower Castle
The "Lower Hisar" section, which was built during the reign of Fatih Sultan Mehmed, is lower. As it was located low, it had a ditch about 75 meters long. The reason for the construction of this fortress is that the source of water, called "Ilipinar", which comes out from a plain rock, is taken within the boundaries of the castle and the enemy does not restrain that water during the siege and the people do not remain dehydrated. In this part of the castle there are twenty houses and a masjid. There are several ways down from the castle. Between the two towers between the two towers were very close to each other.
Castle Gates
The castle had a total of three gates. There were three floors of iron doors, one facing east, down to the bazaar, and outside this door, there were glorious lion statues made of white marbles on the right and left. From the ward of the scout in front of this door, the city was completely visible. A door to the south side "Sultanbağı" side would open. The third gate would lead down to the castle and looked east.
Citadel
The inner fortress was a four-cornered fortress to the west of Kütahya Castle. The circumference was about a thousand steps. There was a small gate on the west side of the inner castle. The wooden wings of the door were covered with buffalo skin, not iron. Two water cisterns, one masjid on the inner face of this door; There were dizdar, imam, muezzin and kethüda households, two wheat warehouses and eight houses. There was no other structure but a very empty castle.
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