Brníčko Castle
| Brníčko | ||
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 Remains of the castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Brunnles | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Place: | Brníčko | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 53 '43 " N , 16 ° 58' 20" E | |
| Height: | 388 m nm | |
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The ruin of Brníčko Castle (German Brünnles ) is located to the east above the village of Brníčko in Okres Šumperk , Czech Republic .
geography
The ruins of the hilltop castle are located in the Úsovská vrchovina ( Outer Hills ) on a 388 m hill above the Loučka brook valley. To the northwest it rises the Skalka (444 m), in the east the Šebená ( Upper Mountain , 476 m), to the south the Velká Polanka ( Pollankaberg , 508 m), Bílý kámen ( White Stone Mountain , 588 m) and Trlina (523 m) and in the West the Markovice ( High Steinberg , 475 m). Surrounding places are Brníčko , Dlouhomilov , Strupšín and Dolní Brníčko.
history
After the Vladiken von Dubicko had also acquired the Otaslavice rule in 1287, they began to build a new center of their possessions in Brníčko. The castle was probably built around 1330 by Ctibor Morava von Otaslavice and Dubicko († 1369), a great-grandson of Benedas von Dubicko. In 1356 the castle was registered in the land register as the property of the Lords of Otaslavice. The town of Brníčko was the economic center of the Brníčko dominion created by the division of Dubicko. In 1377 the castle belonged to Ctibor's sons Mikuláš Morava, Jimram and Micháč, who gave themselves the title of Brníčko . After the death of Mikuláš Morava, the Brníčko lordship, consisting of the castle, the farm and the town of Brníčko and seven villages, fell to the Margrave Jobst of Moravia . He left them to Bernhard Hecht von Schützendorf in 1387. He was followed at the beginning of the 15th century by the Vladiken von Schönwald. During the Moravian fratricidal war between the Marquis Jobst and Prokop of Moravia , the castle served as a base for Jobst's troops and was the starting point for raids into the surrounding area. Even in the Hussite Wars, the castle formed a bulwark against the rebels. In 1434 Jan Tunkl von Drahanovice acquired the rule and named himself after her Tunkl von Brníčko . Jan Tunkl, who came from a poor landed noble family who immigrated from the Duchy of Jägerndorf to Moravia during the Hussite Wars , became the founder of one of the most powerful Moravian aristocratic families. He had the castle, which was damaged in the Hussite Wars, restored and residential buildings expanded.
In 1442 Jan Tunkl acquired Hohenstadt and in 1464 also Hochstein . Tunkl was a loyal supporter of Georg von Podiebrad and was in a permanent feud with his Catholic neighbors, the Lords of Zwole and Goldenstein , in the second half of the 15th century . After Jan Tunkl died in 1464, his underage sons Jan d. J. and Georg d. Ä. collectively the goods. Jan took his seat at the castle Brníčko and Georg in Hohenstadt. After the Bohemian troops under Zdeněk Kostka von Postupitz from the Legio nigra ( Black Rotte ) in the service of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus under the command of the Silesian mercenary captain Franz von Hag (František z Háje) in the autumn of 1468 during the Bohemian-Hungarian War Battle of Zvole and Rájec had been fought, the mercenaries ravaged the lords of the Tunkl brothers. In 1471 the Brníčko Castle was captured and destroyed by the Legio nigra. George d. Ä. changed the fronts in the same year after the death of Georg von Podiebrad and fought as captain of the Legio nigra against Vladislav II in 1474 . J. Tunkl from Brníčko. George d. Ä. subsequently administered the entire family property and took his brother's underage sons to Hohenstadt. The Brníčko Castle was only poorly repaired. The Brníčko lordship attached to Hohenstadt has not been mentioned in the country table since 1490. Georg d. Died in 1494. Ä. as a result of injuries during a revolt of his subjects because of unbearable loads when building a pond. When Jindřich Tunkl pledged the Hohenstadt rule to Nikolaus Trčka von Lípa in 1510 , the castle was listed for the last time as part of the Brünnleser estates. When the Hohenstadt reign passed through Mikuláš Tunkl to Ladislav von Boskowitz in 1513, the Brníčko Castle was already considered desolate.