Romania · 14th century
The Slimnic fortress, in German Stolzenburg, is a fortified enclosure with towers, chapel, gate tower, bastion and outbuildings, built in the 14th century. It figures on the 2010 list of historic monuments, LMI code SB-II-m-A-12552.
Machine-translated from “Cetatea din Slimnic” on the Romanian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Slimnic fortress ranks #7,968 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #83 of the 125 mapped in Romania. Founded c. 1350, it is older than 54% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 757 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Sibiu, 13 km away. It is one of the 78 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Transylvania. It is stop 13 of 26 on the Transylvania castle route, Bran to Cluj-Napoca. See how Romania compares in the castle statistics.
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