Poland · 13th century
Radłówka Castle – the ruins of a castle in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Lwówek County, Gmina Lwówek Śląski, two kilometres west of Lwówek Śląski.
Radłówka was mentioned as early as the second decade of the 13th century, when the village was in the hands of the Lange family. In a later period the village belonged to the Raussendorf family (1421), and then to the town council of Lwówek. In 1500 the village was bought from the town by Siegmund von Zedlitz, who at the beginning of the 16th century erected a castle on the site of an earlier building. It was a regular structure built of stone ashlars measuring 24 × 27 m. The courtyard was surrounded by three residential wings (probably of two storeys), the fourth side being closed by a wall in which there was a gate.
The whole was situated on a quadrangular embankment about 40 m on a side and was surrounded by a double moat filled with mud and by an earth rampart. It was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, but was still inhabited until the middle of the 18th century; later it was abandoned, which caused its final destruction. It is now in ruin, and the material obtained from the demolition served for the construction of farms in the area.
In the moat one can find a great stone monument in honour of the Germans who fell in the First World War.
Machine-translated from “Zamek w Radłówce” on the Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Radłówka Castle ranks #8,844 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #394 of the 398 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1215, it is older than 74% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Jelenia Góra, 28 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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