Poland · 14th century
Szczerba Castle ranks #6,513 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #249 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded 1368, it is older than 53% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 758 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Nysa, 59 km away. It is one of the 80 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Lower Silesia. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
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.
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