Šaunštejn Castle

Šaunštejn Castle
Schauenstein rock castle
Coordinates	50°52′10.01″N 14°21′12.32″E / 50.8694472°N 14.3534222°E / 50.8694472; 14.3534222Coordinates: 50°52′10.01″N 14°21′12.32″E / 50.8694472°N 14.3534222°E / 50.8694472; 14.3534222
Code	CZ
Site information
Condition	ruin
Site history
Built	14th century

Šaunštejn Castle (German: Schauenstein, also Hohenleipaer Raubschloss) is a rock castle near (Hohenleipa) in the Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic. Today only a few ruins remain of the original castle. Preserved are the foundations of the wooden superstructure, several rooms that were chiselled-out of the rock and the cistern.

History[]

The castle was built by the Berka z Dubé family from Lípa in the 14th century to protect the Old Bohemian Road (Alte Böhmerstraße), the trade route from Bohemia to Lusatia. From 1435 it belonged to the who used it as a base for raids. In the 15th century it was besieged several times by the Wettins und the Lusatian League and finally destroyed.

Views[]

In clear weather the view extends from the , the Lausche, the Rosenberg, over the Hoher Schneeberg to the Ore Mountains.

See also[]

• List of castles in the Czech Republic

Sources[]

• Richard Klos: Die sechs Felsenburgen in der Böhmischen Schweiz. In: Heft 3/1968, pp. 97–103

External links[]

• Website for Šaunštejn Castle (in Czech)