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The castle has preserved in its entirety |
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Admission: |
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The entrance to the castle is paid |
Parking: |
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In front of the castle there is a paid parking lot and nowhere nearby you can park legally for free |
Searching difficulty: |
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Finding that site does not make any problem since the signposts lead up there |
Access difficulty: |
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The access to the castle from the parking lot is very easy |
Subjective rating: |
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Similarly to Wawel and Malbork the castle receives only 4 stars considering an overpopulation |
Driving directions:Perhaps no one should have any problems with finding Wałbrzych. If you enter the town from the north, down the road no 35 from Świdnica, right before the town it is enough to turn right according to the indication of the board directing to the castle.
Historical outline:A former name: Fürstenstein
The Książ castle was built in the XIIIth cent. presumably on the initiative of Bolko I, however the first mentions of the castle come only from 1337. As early as the XIVth cent. until the XVIth cent. the stronghold was very often changing its owners. In 1509 it ultimately came into hands of the Hochberg family (who lost it earlier for a moment to the Schellendorf family) and since then until the World War II it was in their possession. These were exactly them who contributed in large measure to a present appearance of the castle making numerous reconstructions. In the time of the World War II the castle was a residence of military institutions, whereas under the castle the prisoners from the neighboring camp were forced to build tunnels. After the war the castle was devastated, and its reconstruction did not begin until 1966. The works lasted for a few dozen years and currently we can admire the castle in all its glory.
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