Rakvere Order Castle ihas been the largest fortress in Viru-Viru county. The first fortification on this site was built by Danes at the beginning of the 14th century. The height of the western wall was up to 7 meters, and on top of it there was a protective passage on the stools . The defense wall was later built three times higher. The ringmaster followed the surface and represented an irregular rectangle. After 1345 Rakvere Fort went into the possession of the Order. Then the fortress was expanded and the capitol was built. The new masonry wall was shifted to 15.6 meters north and now...

Rakvere Order Castle ihas been the largest fortress in Viru-Viru county. The first fortification on this site was built by Danes at the beginning of the 14th century. The height of the western wall was up to 7 meters, and on top of it there was a protective passage on the stools . The defense wall was later built three times higher. The ringmaster followed the surface and represented an irregular rectangle. After 1345 Rakvere Fort went into the possession of the Order. Then the fortress was expanded and the capitol was built. The new masonry wall was shifted to 15.6 meters north and now also covered the hilltop. In addition to the exterior walls, a building wing with dredged basements was also built. At the same time, the bottom of the first circular wall was partially demolished and its western part was used as the bottom wall of the massive tower. However, only a broken boat was used to build a western tower with a rectangular bottom plan. A new east-west wall was built above the south wall of the tower. This allowed access to the northern capitol. In the southern part of the capital, wooden buildings were heated with stoves. The castle's inner courtyard became its preserved dimensions to this day. The northern part of the fortress was designed as a convent building . More or less continuous construction continued until the beginning of the 16th century . At the same time, the height of the other walls was harmonized with the construction of the southern duct and two flanking corner towers and the east gate complex were built. By this time, the Rakvere Castle was a powerful complex of defense structures, largely adapted to firearms. The transverse and four-storey towers were fired with firearms. One of the towers on the southwest of the fortress was built as a rondel or round cannon tower, and now the fortress has a convent shape, with individual wings connected by a crosshair around the courtyard, which was vaulted on the first floor. The entrance to the castle was a big gate building with two east gates, one of which was equipped with a lift bridge and a so-called "wolf hole" and an inner creek. The gate was built with a massive half-rondel rondel with a fire room with a fireplace and a pop-up oven on the bottom. The Russians conquered Rakvere in 1558 and added a protective zone of stone, oak and logs to the north, east and south slopes of the fortress, covering an area of ​​4.5 hectares. The last defenses were added by the Swedes in the late 16th century. Then bastions were built on the north and south sides, and the western wall and the tower there were strengthened. In 1602–1605, the fortress belonged to the Poles, who let go of the air when they retreated in the Polish-Swedish War and the fortress was destroyed. The castle's ruins have been partially conserved several times.