The castle is located in Bolków (30 km to the north-west of Wałbrzych), Lower Silesian Voivodeship; in Poland.

On the initiative of Bolko I, a number of strongholds were expanded to control the passages from the Czech Republic to Silesia through the Sudeten range.

[4] In the Piast times, the castle's residents were ducal burgraves, such as: Logau, Schaffgotsch, Schweinichen, and Salza.

[5] In the years 1301-1368, during the reign of princes Bernard of Świdnica and Bolko II the Small (from 1353), the castle was enlarged.

According to historians, from the time of Bolko II, for about 100 years, the castle served as a treasury, which was later transferred to Prague.

On July 3, Bolko II bequeathed the principalities to Anna and Charles IV, under the condition that he or his wife Agnes of Austria would be able to rule them until their death.

[6] In 1463, the Czech king, George of Poděbrady, imprisoned the knight Hans von Tschirnhaus, who became famous in the area for robberies.

[7] This was the reason why the burghers of Wrocław and Świdnica organized an armed expedition to the castle under the leadership of Guncel II Świnka in 1468.

In 1715, the Cistercians completed the interior reconstruction; By an edict of October 30, 1810, the castle becomes the property of the Prussian State Treasury (secularization).