Poland · 18th century
Fort Charles (German: Blockhaus, Fort Carl) – the remains of a fort on Ptak Mountain (841 m above sea level) near Lisia Przełęcz. The fort was built in 1790 by order of the King of Prussia Frederick William II as a small watchpost on the border of Prussia and Austria, with a garrison of a few men, guarding the road to Radków (the Road of a Hundred Bends).
Machine-translated from “Fort Karola” on the Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Charles ranks #7,506 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #297 of the 398 mapped in Poland. Founded 1790, it is older than 13% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 696 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. 15 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Wałbrzych, 33 km away. It is one of the 80 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Lower Silesia. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
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