Křikava Castle
| Křikava | ||
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 Wall remains |
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| Alternative name (s): | Krikawa, Starý hrad | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Place: | Černívsko | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 28 '30 " N , 13 ° 56' 18" E | |
| Height: | 480 m nm | |
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The ruins of the Křikava Castle (German Krikawa ) are located east of Černívsko , Uzeničky municipality , in Okres Strakonice , Czech Republic .
geography
The ruin of the spur castle is opposite the village of Černívsko on the left side of the Kostratecký creek on a wooded rock spur above the Černívský rybník pond in the Central Bohemian hill country . The Křikava hill (520 m) rises to the northeast.
history
The castle was built in the middle of the 14th century by the court master of Queen Blanca , Hugo von Donnerstein ( Huk z Donrštejna ), who came from a Bavarian knight family . In 1348 Charles I bought the village of Myštice . The first written mention of the castle, which also owned the village of Černívsko, was made in 1357. Hugo's sons Koloman, Huk, Buzek and Přibyslav divided the rule of Křikava between them in 1367. The lords of the castle alternately used the predicates of thunder stone and of Krikawa ( z Křikavy ). The parish and capital of the rule was Černívsko. They shared the church patronage in Černívsko with their relatives Vladiken von Huzenice . In 1399 the castle belonged to Přibek and Jindřich von Krikawa. In 1402 the castle was captured, ravaged and plundered by the robber Dobešík von Bor. The last owner, Jindřich Kolman von Křikava, master chef Wenceslas IV , did not have it restored. In 1418 the Catholic sold the castle with the village of Myštice including two farms ( dvory kmetcí ) in Černívsko, the meadow "Velká" near Zaroždice and a mill together with his other goods in the Prachiner district to Peter Zmrzlík from Welding on Worlik and withdrew from the Hussites returned to the fortress Obořiště , where he was murdered in 1425 while being captured by the rebels under Peter and Johann Zmrzlík von Schweißing. The Křikava Castle was completely ruined during the Hussite Wars . Towards the end of the 15th century Tašek von Drahenice acquired the desert castle Křikava with the village Černívsko and added them to the Uzeničky manor .
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the ruins were mostly referred to as the Old Castle or Starý hrad on Krikawa Mountain. In the first half of the 19th century, the owner of the Drahenice estate , Oberstlandmarschall Johann Prokop Graf Hartmann von Klarstein, had conservation measures carried out on the ruins to prevent complete decay.
investment
The closed, rectangular castle complex was protected to the northeast by a deep moat, on the other sides by steep slopes and to the west by the pond. The center of the top courtyard formed a prismatic residential tower on the south side there was Palas . The castle was accessed from the east.
Remains of the tower wall, four meters high, have been preserved. On the southwest side there are remains of the wall of the hall with a spiral staircase that led to a buried cellar.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia presented statistically and topographically. Volume 8: Prachiner Circle. JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1840, p. 88.