 Crown Hetman () Stanisław Koniecpolski acquired Brody town in 1629 and built the castle bastion of a new type between 1630 and 1635 under the supervision of Italian architect Andrea del Aqua, based on a design by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan.The castle was pentagonal in plan and included five bastions and curtain walls, with octagonal dungeons in the middle.It was surrounded by the deep moat.