Czech Republic · 16th century
Freudenstein (also called Šlik's Little Castle) is a castle ruin near Jáchymov in the Karlovy Vary district. It lies about one kilometer west of the town on the Zámecký vršek hill, at an elevation of 810 meters. Two corner towers survive, along with a small section of the perimeter wall. Since 1964 it has been protected as a cultural monument.
Machine-translated from “Freudenstein” on the Czech Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Freudenstein ranks #7,493 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #233 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded 1520, it is older than 42% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 891 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Karlovy Vary, 16 km away. It is one of the 189 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Bohemia. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →