Ruin
Szczerba Castle
🇵🇱 Poland
The ruin of Szczerba Castle, German Burg Schnallenstein (also Burg Schnellenstein; in Polish also Śnielin), lies in the Bystrzyckie Mountains (Polish Góry Bystrzyckie) on a rocky hill spur between the villages of Różanka (Rosenthal) and Gniewoszów (Seitendorf). It belongs to the municipality of Międzylesie (Mittelwalde) in the Powiat Kłodzki (Glatz district).
Machine-translated from “Burg Szczerba” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Szczerba Castle ranks #6,008 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #234 of the 374 mapped in Poland. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Nysa, 59 km away. It is one of the 72 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Lower Silesia. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →Frequently asked questions
Where is Szczerba Castle?
Szczerba Castle stands in Poland, at 50.19483°, 16.62008°.
How famous is Szczerba Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,008 of 8,134 worldwide, and #234 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 Szczerba Castle?
Międzylesie Castle, about 6 km away.
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