Košumberk Castle
The ruins of Košumberk Castle (German Koschumberg , Rossumberg , older also Roßenburg ) are located above the Novohradka valley near the village of Košumberk, which belongs to the town of Luže , 11 km southwest of Vysoké Mýto in Okres Chrudim , Czech Republic .
The castle was probably founded by Ojíř von Košumberk after 1310. An important member of this noble family, the Slavata of Chlum and Koschumberg , Diviš Slavata of Chlum , carried out a renaissance redesign of the castle buildings in 1573 and had a castle built, the construction of which his son Jindřich and grandson Diviš continued. Jindřich Slawata († beginning of 1599), on Koschumberg and Chropyně in Moravia, district chief of the Chrudim district, land rights assessor in Brno , married to Kunigunde Czerncziczky from Kaczow auf Chraustowicz, was a supporter of the Bohemian brothers as well as an uncle and guardian of the 1595 with 12 years of ware Wallenstein . He raised him for two years with his son Diviš, who was about the same age, before sending him to the Latin school in Goldberg in the Duchy of Liegnitz .
From the end of the 17th century the castle was owned by the Jesuits who lived in a newly built residence in Chlumek . After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773, the castle fell into disrepair; the gatehouse has been preserved and, thanks to extensive restoration work, has been converted into a castle museum.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '2.8 " N , 16 ° 2' 4.4" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://biblio.unibe.ch/adam/zoom/zoom.php?col=ryh&pic=Ryh_4403_5
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wallenstein. His life is told by Golo Mann . Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 1971, ISBN 3-10-047903-3 (hardback) and Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13654-7 (paperback)
