Poland · 14th century
Ełk Castle ranks #4,818 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #181 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded 1398, it is older than 51% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 758 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,689 times in the last 60 days, more than 65% of the atlas. It is one of the 25 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Warmia and Masuria. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
Ełk Castle was an order castle of the Teutonic Order in the then East Prussian town of Lyck, today Ełk.
Machine-translated from “Burg Lyck” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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