in 1570. The new mannerist structure had three wings with a central courtyard that opened to the west and was adorned with Renaissance attics, cornices and arcades. It was surrounded by a curtain wall in the north, strengthened with a bastion entry (barbican). Two pentagonal bastions were erected in the south. After the reconstruction, the castle took the shape of an irregular polygon, measuring over 140 meters from east to west, and 130 meters from north to south. Italian-style gardens and vineyards stretched out below the castle. The last big expenditure on the castle was a thorough reconstruction of the castle chapel, completed in the early 17th century by Agnieszka Firlejowa née Tęczyńska. In 1637 Jan Magnus Tęczyński, the last representative of the family, died in the castle. His only daughter Izabela married Łukasz Opalinski. In 1655, during the Deluge, a rumor was spread that Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Grand Marshal of the Crown, had hidden the Polish Crown Jewels in Tenczyn Castle. Swedish-Brandenburgian forces led by Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck captured the castle from a defence led by Captain Jan Dziula and slaughtered all of its defenders. When they did not find treasure, they left the fortress and burned it in July 1656. After the Deluge, the castle was for the most part rebuilt and partially inhabited. At the beginning of the 18th century, ownership of the Tenczyn estates was passed to Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski and later to Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski, who had married with Sieniawski's only daughter Maria Zofia. The castle was eventually passed to the Prince's daughter Izabela Lubomirska. After the fire in 1768, the structure increasingly fell into disrepair. In 1783, the remains of Jan Magnus Tęczyński were moved from the castle chapel to a new tomb in St. Catherine's Church in Tenczynek. In 1816, the castle became the property of the Potocki family and remained in their hands until the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Plan of the castle A hypothetical reconstruction of the castle's full layout was drawn based on the research of Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, Nikodem Pajzderski, Stanisław Polaczek, Bohdan Guerquin, Marian Kornecki, Teresa Małkowska-Holcerowa and Janusz Kurtyka. Identification of the premises was based on division acts from 1553 and 1733 and a drawing by Erik Dahlbergh from 1655. Legend A - Upper Castle (14th century) with well (1655, "a") B - Lower castle (14th / 15th century), Tenczyn castle cum muro