Świny Castle (German Schweinhausburg) - the original castle, later fortified castle, and since the beginning of the seventeenth century castle in Silesia, in the residential village near Świny Bolków.
It was first mentioned in chronicles in 1108 on Kosmas called Zvini in Poland. Then in the document of Pope Hadrian IV, is mentioned as a fortress Kaštelanski Zpini. Between 70. Bolek I Srogiego decision in XIII century castle Swiny was given to the family Świnków (of German Schweinichen), which it lived up to the eighteenth century.






