At a distance of about 1.5 km west of the village of Starczanowo, is located Radzim – formerly a stronghold and village with a parish church, now difficult to access, uninhabited, with a wooded area, within the boundaries of the military training ground in Biedrusko, not available for sightseeing.
A stronghold on a former mid-Warta island with traces of the residential and outbuilding development of a former village on the left bank of the Warta River are today the only testimonies of Radzim's former splendour still visible in the field. The Radzim stronghold served an important function first in the structures of the state of the first Piasts, then in the times of the partition and the struggle of the dukes of Wielkopolska for the rule over the territory. After the collapse of the stronghold and the takeover of the property by the Poznan Joannites in 1360, the place lost its importance; the functioning of the settlement in the 18th century was sustained only by the parish church of St. Nicholas and St. Barbara. After the temple was disassembled in 1843 and the parish was moved to nearby Maniewo, only the forestry functioned in Radzim. The demolition of its buildings in the 1970s marked the end of the settlement's existence.
In the period 2002-2017, the site was the subject of an interdisciplinary research conducted by the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica, co-financed by the City and Municipality of Murowana Goślina and the Municipality of Oborniki. As a result of excavations, it has been established that Ostrów Radzimski was settled temporarily as early as the Bronze Age (from about 900-800 BC to about 600 BC). In the
second half of the 10th century, an early Piast stronghold was constructed there. It was a defensive structure that should be classified as a local stronghold, built on the border of the so-called Gniezno state, at an important point on the waterway – the Warta River, which was the axis of the early Piast state. The stronghold guarded the waterway and the land route that led from Gniezno through Lednica and Radzim to the west. It also protected the borders of the state and was the seat of the local administration that collected tribute. Around the middle of the 11th century it was burned down. A settlement functioned on its relics until the end of the 12th century. At that time, the northwestern part of the island was rebuilt, erecting a castellan's stronghold, which served as the centre of the administrative district. It functioned until the first half of the 14th century and was rebuilt twice. Please note that the stronghold is located on the military training ground in Biedrusko and is not available for sightseeing!
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