Czech Republic · 13th century
Vartenberk Castle (formerly also Vartemberk, German Wartenberg or Warttenberg) lies north-east of the North Bohemian small town of Stráž pod Ralskem on the Zámecký vrch (352 m) above the valley of the Ploučnice. It was built at the end of the 15th century as a Renaissance palace on the foundations of a Gothic castle of the 12th to 13th centuries.
Machine-translated from “Vartenberk” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vartenberk Castle ranks #6,285 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #197 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded 1281, it is older than 64% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Liberec, 19 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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