Castle in Szczebrzeszyn, Medieval castle ruins in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland.

Castle in Szczebrzeszyn stands on a hill above the Wieprz ford, where only the remains of a stone tower and the castle hill survive. The tower measured 7.6 by 10.4 m, had three storeys, was built of stone opoka below and brick above, and had Renaissance decoration and rusticated corners. Around it were vaulted cellars, a single-storey stone building and a wooden palisade.

A defensive gord stood here in the Piast era, guarding the ford over the Wieprz; it was burned in 1244 by the Ruthenian princes Daniel and Vasylko Romanovych. A castle existed by 1352, when Casimir the Great camped near Szczebrzeszyn, and in 1379 Louis of Hungary granted the town to treasurer Dymitr of Goraj. The tower burned in 1500 and was rebuilt by Andrzej II Górka; Jan Zamoyski bought the castle in 1593 and added it to the Zamoyski Ordynacja.

The castle hill was a crossing point on the Wieprz river; a Piast stronghold here was burned in 1244 by the Ruthenian princes Daniel and Vasylko Romanovych. In the 17th and 18th centuries the tower housed courts and a prison for the nobility. Since 2022–2023 a viewing platform costing about 3.1 million złoty stands on the tower site.

You can reach the ruins on foot from the town center and explore the remains at your own pace. The site is freely accessible and gives you a good impression of medieval construction methods.

The viewing platform on the castle hill was built in 2022–2023 for about 3.1 million złoty, on the site of the castle tower. The hill was bought by the Szczebrzeszyn municipality from the Wesołowski family in January 2018, after the council approved the purchase in 2017.