Chałupki Castle

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The ruins of the Chałupki Castle (German: Burg Neuhaus ) belong to the Polish municipality of Kamieniec Ząbkowicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship .

history

Neuhaus Castle was built by Duke Bolko I von Jauer-Löwenberg to secure the border with Bohemia . Since he only acquired this area in 1291 and is named Burgrave Peter von Liebenau in 1295, it must have been founded between these years.

The castle was on a hill on the left bank of the Glatzer Neisse , two kilometers northwest of the episcopal city of Patschkau , not far from the Bohemian border. The village of the same name developed below the castle area.

At the beginning of the 15th century the castle belonged to the Principality of Neisse and as a fief of the Wroclaw bishop Sigismund von Reichenau, who was also called Rachna . He is said to have been a notorious adventurer and highwayman, and his castle was a robber baron's nest. Has been received for the first time in the history Rachna 1438, when he during the succession dispute over the ownership of the Principality Miinsterberg the monastery Heinrichau plundered. He is said to have received the order for this from Princess Eufemie, who was married to Friedrich von Öttingen, whose partisan Rachna is said to have been. Eufemie was a sister of the last Piast from Münsterberg, Johann , who was killed in the battle of Altwilmsdorf in 1428 .

In the summer of 1440, Rachna kidnapped the eldest daughter Anna of the late governor Puta the Elder from Glatzer Castle . J. von Častolowitz . The background to the kidnapping was Rachna's wish to get a part of her late father's inheritance through a possible marriage to Anna.

After Hynek Kruschina von Lichtenburg acquired Puta's possessions a few weeks later and married his widow Anna von Kolditz, he negotiated that he demanded that the Bishop of Breslau liberate his stepdaughter and punish Rachna. In order to reinforce his demand, he began looting in the diocese of Neisse . On December 29, 1440, the bishop undertook to expropriate Rachna and his brother Kunze, who was involved in the kidnapping, and to transfer their property to the family of the kidnapped girl. Since the brothers Rachna and Kunze did not bow to the bishop's demands to appear before his court, Hynek Kruschina and his army besieged the castle in early 1441. After the conquest, he freed his stepdaughter; the kidnapper Rachna and his helpers managed to escape to the episcopal castle Kaltenštejn, 22 kilometers south .

Hynek Kruschina appropriated Neuhaus Castle in accordance with the bishop's promise and deployed his own protective forces and a bailiff there. Since raids are said to have continued from the castle, the castle was stormed by the Bishop of Breslau and allied Silesian armies. Nevertheless, Neuhaus remained a robber baron's nest in the years that followed. Bishop Johannes V. Thurzo stormed it again in 1509 and then acquired the Neuhaus castle and estate.

In 1559 the castle and the manor were owned by Hedwig von Promnitz , the widow of the knight Heincze von Schaffgotsch on Neuhaus and Hertwigswalde . The next owners of the estate were the lords of Maltitz and in the 19th century again the Schaffgotsch, followed by the Counts Chamaré .

The castle was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, at least it is only mentioned as a ruin afterwards. Remnants of the fortifications are still visible. The castle tower was demolished in 1830.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '16 "  N , 16 ° 52' 50.4"  E