Czech Republic · 17th century
Smrčina Castle (German Schloss Sorg) stood in the municipality of Podhradí in the Cheb District in the Czech Republic. It was built in 1690 for Karl Joseph von Zedtwitz and was the seat of the Sorg portion of the Asch estate. It was demolished in 1963. The Czech name Smrčina means spruce forest.
Machine-translated from “Schloss Smrčina” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Smrčina Chateau ranks #8,044 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #239 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded 1690, it is older than 22% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 721 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Karlovy Vary, 49 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.
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