No current historical sources identify the exact year of its construction or who its constructor was. Earliest records date back to
edicts of Stephen II to Ragusa from 1333. It was located on, at the time, important military roads which made it an important strategic stronghold. Already in 1363, king
Louis I of Hungary sent an army to Bosnia, led by his palatine
Nicholas Kont, which suffered significant losses under Srebrenik. In 1393 it was captured by Hungarian king
Sigismund of Luxembourg and within the next decades it changed rulers several times, with Hungarians recapturing it in 1405, 1408 and 1410 respectively. It was then granted as a gift to Serbian despot
Stefan Lazarević, but remained in use by the Hungarians as a garrison.
King Thomas of Bosnia managed to recapture it by 1433, but already in 1452 it was seized by
Đurađ Branković, nephew of Stefan Lazarević, who gave it to Hungarians. It is not known when the Ottomans recaptured it, but sometime between 1510 and 1519 is the most likely date. Ever since the
Battle of Mohács and up to
Treaty of Karlowitz, due to expansion of Ottoman borders, the fortress saw very little military activity. Because of that, it was either completely abandoned or left with only a small garrison. The Srebrenik Castle belonged to the Smoluća Nahija, the prince was Vlatko, son of Vladimir. He had 8 sons of which 3 converted to Islam. Vlachs of this principality belonged to the settlements of Gnojica, Miričina, Kruševica, Gornja Smoluća, Puračić, Gornja Lukavica, Srednja Smoluća, Donja Smoluća, Devetak, Dobošnica and Čitluk. In the entire principality there was 153 Christian households with 214 tabis, and 63 Muslim households with 68 tabis In the 18th century, with Ottoman borders shrinking, it regained its strategic importance. Austrian spies reported it as an old fortress without providing any detailed descriptions. At this time, it was already in dire need of reparations. Some reparations were carried out as early as 1756, but their circumstances and results remain unreported. ==Heritage designation==