Ruin
Swobnica Castle
🇵🇱 Poland · 14th century
Swobnica Castle (Polish Zamek Swobnica) is the ruin of a castle in Swobnica (German: Wildenbruch) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. The castle ruin lies about 40 kilometres south of Szczecin and about 20 kilometres east of Schwedt/Oder on the shore of a silted-up lake. The castle was built in the 14th century in the Duchy of Pomerania as an order castle of the Knights Hospitaller commandery of Wildenbruch, was later rebuilt as a Baroque palace and remodelled again in the 19th century.
Machine-translated from “Schloss Wildenbruch” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Swobnica Castle ranks #5,412 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #208 of the 374 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1400, it is older than 53% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 604 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Swobnica Castle?
Swobnica Castle stands in Poland, at 53.03117°, 14.62383°.
When was Swobnica Castle built?
The atlas dates its founding to c. 1400. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.
How famous is Swobnica Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #5,412 of 8,134 worldwide, and #208 in Poland. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Swobnica Castle?
Ducal Castle, about 44 km away.
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