Czech Republic · 13th century
Šostýn (German: Schauenstein; occasionally also called Schawenstein, Scheibstein, Schornstein or Schowenstayn) is a Gothic castle in the municipality of Kopřivnice, Czech Republic.
Machine-translated from “Burg Šostýn” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Šostýn ranks #6,366 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #201 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded c. 1300, it is older than 60% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Ostrava, 29 km away. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.
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