King Casimir III the Great built Bobolice Castle in the mid-14th century, probably on the site of an earlier wooden structure. It was a royal stronghold guarding the Silesian border. The article names no architect and gives no completion date. It sits on a steep rocky hill at 1,181 feet (360 m) above sea level.
The article describes the style as Polish Gothic and the walls and battlements as local white limestone. Features include a drawbridge over a dry moat, a gate tower, a residential building of at least two stories and part of a cylindrical wall tower. Swedish troops plundered and ruined the castle in 1657.
The Lasecki family now owns it. The article gives conflicting start dates for the reconstruction, 1999 and 2004, and it carries many citation-needed tags.
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