Rybnica

State of preservation:		Quite big fragments of walls have remained of the castle
Admission:		You can sightsee the ruins for free
Parking:		There is no parking lot nearby and what is worse you would find no place to park your car
Searching difficulty:		Finding the ruins is very hard because they are hidden in the interior of place, among the trees
Access difficulty:		The access to the castle is also very difficult since you must climb up a steep hill, forcing your way through dense brushwood
Subjective rating:		No revelation

Driving directions:

There is situated a place Stara Kamienica 10 km west of Jelenia Góra. If you drive from there in the direction of Jelenia Góra, you will enter Rybnica. You ought not to do it, however, but around 100 m before the board with the name of the place "Rybnica" turn into a narrow, asphalt road to the right and drive along it straight ahead. After driving under the railroad viaduct, in about 80 m there is a field road to the pond on the right side. You should turn into it, leave car there and walk towards the pond. You must walk round the pond along the shore (not along the road) clockwise. In the scrub on the hill there are the ruins of the castle. You "only" need to climb up there.


Historical outline:

Former name: Reibnitz, Läusepelz or Lausepelz castle

The stronghold in Rybnica was raised as a wooden-earth defensive structure at the end of the XIIIth cent. The brick castle came into being the most probably in the years of 1364-1369 by the affair of Karol IV. There is a hypothesis, however, saying that in these years the castle was in hands of knight Mikołaj of Rybnica. The building was demolished at the start of the XVth cent., and then rebuilt and enlarged. The castle – reconstructed twice in the XVIIIth cent. was abandoned in the first half of the XIXth cent.


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