Lemberk Castle, Renaissance castle in Lvová, Czech Republic

Lemberk Castle is a fortress near Lvová in the Czech Republic featuring Renaissance and Baroque architectural elements that rise above the surrounding Lusatian landscape. A distinctive cylindrical tower dominates the exterior and is visible from the surrounding area.

Havel of Lemberk, of the Markvartice family, built a stone castle before 1241, named Löwenberg after the lion on his coat of arms. The Berka of Dubá had it rebuilt as a Renaissance château around 1570, and only the lower part of the round bergfried survived. In 1634 it passed by marriage to the Breda family, who had north and east wings built between 1660 and 1680.

The castle opened as a museum on 11 June 1992. In the west wing's ground floor a museum is devoted to Saint Zdislava of Lemberk, with relics from her life; the Fairy-tale Hall keeps a coffered ceiling of 77 panels showing Aesop's fables with German inscriptions, ordered by Jan of Donín.

The castle stands on a hill above the Panenský potok valley, less than a kilometre from Lvová, which has a railway stop on the Liberec–Česká Lípa line; a green-marked trail leads from Jablonné v Podještědí. Parking is in a catchment car park in the former farmyard below the castle. Tours run from April to October, and the castle is closed in winter.

The castle's most valuable original feature is the cylindrical bergfried, 8.5 metres in diameter; its original entrance sits 8.5 metres above the courtyard and was once reached only by ladder. Its sheet-metal helm dates from 1754.