Edelštejn Castle
| Edelštejn Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Gemstone Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1250-1300 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Zlaté Hory | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 14 '8 " N , 17 ° 22' 56" E | |
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The ruins of Edelštejn Castle (German Castle Edelstein ) is the ruin of a hilltop castle southwest of the town of Zlaté Hory in Okres Jeseník in the Olomoucký kraj region in the Czech Republic.
history
Edelstein Castle was built in the second half of the 13th century in the Preseka border area between Moravia and Silesia . It was probably built by the Wroclaw bishop and served for national defense. It lay on rocky terrain above a trade route that led from Breslau via Neisse , Ziegenhals and Freudenthal to Moravia. As early as 1222 there were disputes between Bishop Lorenz of Breslau and Margrave Vladislav Heinrich over the gold mines in the area .
The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1281, when the Opava Duke Nicholas I devastated the Neiss diocese from Edelstein Castle in a conflict with the Wroclaw Bishop Thomas II . The conflict was settled with a contract, which the Breslau Duke Heinrich IV notarized. As compensation, the bishop received Zuckmantel and Edelstein Castle as a pledge . In 1440, Duke Wenceslaus II of Troppau († 1445/47) pledged the castle to Duke Bolko V of Opole , who was a supporter of the Hussites . His brother and successor, Duke Nicholas I of Opole, sold the castle to the Bohemian King George of Podebrady in 1465 , who left it to the Utraquist John of Žerotín . In 1467, Edelstein Castle was conquered and destroyed by Bishop Jost I von Rosenberg from Breslau . In 1474 the destroyed castle finally came to the principality of Neisse.
literature
- Karl August Müller: Patriotic images, or history and description of all castles and knight palaces in Silesia and the county of Glatz. Second edition, Glogau 1844, pp. 133–135.
- Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 .