Šaunštejn Castle

Šaunštejn Castle (German: Schauenstein, also Hohenleipaer Raubschloss) is a rock castle near Vysoká Lípa (Hohenleipa) in the Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic. Today only a few ruins remain of the original castle. Preserved are the foundations of the wooden superstructure, several rooms that were chiselled-out of the rock and the cistern.

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Šaunštejn Castle ranks #4,967 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #172 of the 182 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded 1400, it is older than 56% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 312 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.

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