Top 14 Castles around gmina Dzierżoniów

A beautiful mountain fortress from Napoleonic times, never conquered. Fort Donjon and Fort Ostróg are both worth visiting.

The castle was built in the 15th century. In 1600, expanded and rebuilt in the Renaissance style. Rebuilt and enlarged in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The beginnings of the castle are unknown. Different dates are given, sometimes the 13th century, sometimes the 15th. It is known that around 1600 the castle was rebuilt in the Renaissance style. At that time it was surrounded by a wall and a moat. In the 17th century it was enlarged, and later, in the 18th and 19th centuries it was rebuilt twice. Today's appearance is the result of all this work. After World War II, the castle became the property of the State Centre for Embryo Breeding. The castle was used for offices, and later it housed a library, a café and a village community centre. Today the castle is still in state hands. It belongs to the National Centre for Supporting Agriculture.

The largest mountain fortress in Europe. It was built in the late 17th century. It housed 2.5 to 3.5 thousand soldiers. It was never conquered. It was no longer needed in the 19th century. For some time, it housed a prison, and then a restaurant. After World War II, it was abandoned and fell into ruin. Now it is slowly being restored. Once again, there is a restaurant inside, and an additional hostel. It can be visited, but there is little to see, guided tours only, and entry is expensive. You can't even get to the restaurant for free. However, this does not discourage tourists, because on days off there is a huge crowd of people there.

It was built in 1765-1777 on the hill of Forteczna (Fortified) Góra (686 m above sea level).

Ruins of the castle in Panków. You can go inside. Atmospheric place.

In this castle, which was built in the 18th century, the members of the Kreisau Circle met, who during the Second World War thought about what social and political life could look like after the war. Kreisau Castle is also full of history.

According to internet sources, the castle in Panków was built in the 14th century on the foundations of a fortified yard and stood on an artificial island surrounded by a moat filled with water from the Bystrzyca River. A stone bridge from the 16th century leads to it. The first owner of the village, mentioned in a document in 1371, was Kunemann von Pankendorf from Niegoszów. His courtyard (Wehrhof) was a place of refuge for the local population in troubled times. As early as 1405 it became the property of the Wiltperg family. In the 15th century in Panków, probably on the site of the manor house, a castle was built for the next owner of the estate - Christoph von Bock. It had a gate tower, two residential buildings and a wall enclosing the courtyard. The von Bock family ruled these lands with a brief interruption until 1650. At the end of the 16th century the castle was destroyed by a great fire, but was rebuilt and slightly enlarged. It was quickly rebuilt in the Renaissance style, enriched with a new dwelling house and the gateway received a cross vault. Unfortunately, the castle was not spared the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, during which it was destroyed in 1650 and abandoned by the von Bock family. The owners of the castle, who later changed quite frequently, included: Christoph von Zedlitz, the von Schindel family, Counts of Hochberg, Hans Christoph von Schweinitz auf Tscheplau, Baron von Posadowsky, Count David Sigismund von Zedlitz and Leipe. Only the new owner - Friedrich von Zedlitz - rebuilt the castle in 1699, gave it the shape of a palace and gave it a baroque character. The castle consisted of a rectangular two-story building and a four-sided tower. In 1857, after the death of Charlotte Friederika von Zedlitz, née Panczewsky-Tenczin, the palace passed into the hands of her husband Wilhelm von Zedlitz's nephew (died 1847), Georg Gustav Rudolf von Salisch and Großgraben. It remained in the possession of this family until the end of World War II. The castle was only used by the von Salisch family during hunting, as their main residence was in Kraków. From the end of the 19th century it slowly fell into disrepair. The building was partially inhabited until World War II, in which the castle was destroyed and never rebuilt. The last owner of Pankow, Gotthilf von Salisch, fled with his wife from Lower Silesia to Bad Gandersheim in 1945 and the castle has been falling into disrepair ever since.