between 1850 and 1854, the austrian authorities built a brick citadel around the mound and began using it as a strategic lookout. as compensation for an earlier historical church that had been demolished, a neo-gothic chapel of blessed bronisława was also built. however, the austrian fortifications, including the gateway and the southwestern rampart and entrenchment were eventually dismantled following world war ii, between 1945 and 1956.