Poland · 12th century
Wleń Castle (Polish Zamek Wleński Gródek) lies above Wleń (German Lähn) in the Powiat Lwówecki (Löwenberg district) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. It lies on the left bank of the Bóbr on a basalt elevation west of Wleń.
Machine-translated from “Burg Lehnhaus” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wleń Castle ranks #3,941 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #146 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1175, it is older than 78% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,774 times in the last 60 days, more than 66% of the atlas. 17 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Jelenia Góra, 14 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.
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