Willenberg Castle

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Willenberg Castle
Creation time : 14th to 15th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Urban and rural municipality Świerzawa- Wielisław Złotoryjski
Geographical location 51 ° 1 '34 "  N , 15 ° 52' 16"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '34 "  N , 15 ° 52' 16"  E
Willenberg Castle (Lower Silesia)
Willenberg Castle

Burg Willberg ( Polish Zamek w Wielisławiu Złotoryjskim ) is the ruin a Höhenburg in Wielisław Złotoryjski (German Willberg ), a part of Sędziszowa ( Röversdorf ) in the urban and rural community Świerzawa ( Schönau ) in złotoryja county ( circle Goldberg ) in the Province of Lower Silesia in Poland . The castle lies over the right bank of the Katzbach .

The ruin stands on a porphyry hill within a castle rampart from the 12th-13th centuries. Century. The castle itself was also built from Prophyr in the 14th or 15th century for a knight of the Liegnitz ducal court .

literature

  • Günther Grundmann : Castles, palaces and manor houses in Silesia - Volume 1: The medieval castle ruins, castles and residential towers . Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8035-1161-5 , p. 167.

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