The castle ruins are located on a hill (360 meters above sea level), within the maple-leaf forest reserve of Castle Mountain. The castle was built on the site of a timber and earth castle that existed here (today’s town of Wleń), raised to the rank of castellany in 1108.

Historical background

It was presumably built by the Duke of Świdnica-Jawor, Bolek the Bald, in the first half of the 13th century. Expanded in the second half of the century, it was the seat of the Świdnica-Jawor princes, but already in the next century it passed into the hands of the knights. It continued to be expanded (in the 14th and 15th centuries) gaining a division into three parts – the upper, middle and low castle. Destroyed during the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century, it was not rebuilt.

Contemporaneity

A tall tower and sizable parts of the walls and fortifications have survived. The well-preserved tower, an element of the medieval fortification wall in the form of a tower, is now open to tourists. When the weather is nice, from it we can admire the Karkonosze range, as well as the panorama of the Kaczawskie Mountains and the Jizera Foothills.

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