Arwaburg
The Arwaburg, Burg Arwa or Orava Castle ( Slovak Oravský hrad , Hungarian Árva vára ) is a castle complex in the Orava region in northern Slovakia .
location
The medieval castle is located on a steep cliff 112 meters above the water surface of the Arwa River (520 meters above sea level), in Oravský Podzámok 10 kilometers northeast of Dolný Kubín .
800 steps lead to the largest and oldest part of the castle. The rooms are home to historical interiors, and in one part of the castle there is a museum with over 13,000 exhibits. Due to the outstanding view of the river and the surrounding mountain ranges, the castle is known as one of the most beautiful castles in Slovakia.
history
The castle was built gradually from the 13th to the 17th century, the structures were built on three terraces of the rock.
It is the burial place of Georg Thurzo († 1616), Palatine of Hungary. Until the end of the magnate conspiracy , the castle was owned by the Thököly family, Emmerich Thököly's father Stephan II. Thököly died on November 23, 1670 while defending his property against the imperial Austrian troops.
Trivia
For the first famous vampire film, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror , exterior and interior shots of the castle and its surroundings were used to depict the castle of the vampire Count Orlok in the summer of 1921.
Recordings for the Czechoslovak-German film König Drosselbart from 1984 took place at the castle.
In the PC game The Witcher , based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski , the Arwaburg was the inspiration for the draftsmen for Kaer Morhen Castle, the home of the witchers.
Filming of the mini-series Dracula of the streaming service Netflix took place on the Arwaburg in 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Votruba: Nosferatu (1922) Slovak Locations . In: Slovak Studies Program . University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 42 ″ N , 19 ° 21 ′ 29 ″ E