Kost Castle

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Kost Castle

The castle Kost is located in the Bohemian Paradise ( Cesky Raj ) in Podkost in Libošovice , jičín district , Czech Republic . It is currently being extensively restored and will be closed until reopening in 2021.

history

Kost Castle

The medieval castle Kost was first mentioned in 1349 as the castle of the builder Beneš von Wartenberg . It was completed by his son Peter. The silhouette has not changed since then. It rises like a bastion from the landscape. The landmark of the castle is the "White Tower". Around 1414 the Zajíc von Hasenburg became owners of the castle. In the years 1497–1524 the related Schellenberg (z Sselmberka), who added the western wing, lived in Kost. Until the middle of the 16th century the Biberstein-Palas was added on the way to the castle. Under the Lobkowicz (until 1576) the buildings in front of the castle were built, which were fortified and incorporated into the castle. At the end of the 17th century, the castle came to the Czernin von und zu Chudenitz family .

In the middle of the 18th century it was bought by Count Wenzel Kasimir Netolitzky von Eisenberg (1700–1760), on Lochovice and Kost, district chief of the Bechiner district, burgrave of Königgrätz, Oberstlandhofrichter and general war commissioner . By inheritance the manor of Kost came to his daughter Theresia Netolitzky von Eisenberg, died 1760, married in 1754 to Franz Wenzel Count Wratislaw von Mitrowitz from the house of Kost, died 1779. Her daughter Theresia Countess Wratislaw-Netolitzky ; married in 1810 to Count Joseph Pozzo di Borgo , kk chamberlain, heir to Kost Castle and, after her, her son Flaminio cavaliere Dal-Borgo-Netolitzky . Kost Castle survived the Second World War undamaged and in 1945 was owned by Count Pio Paolo dal Borgo-Netolitzky. Kost Castle was open to the public during the subsequent Czechoslovakia .

After the beginning of the state of the Czech Republic , it was restored to the Counts Kinsky dal Borgo in 1993 .

The castle is well preserved and served as the backdrop for the movie Hannibal Rising - How It All Began in 2007 and for the TV filming of The Midwife's Secret in 2014 .

particularities

After the Battle of Königgrätz in the German War in 1866, a large number of visitors came to Kost. Among them was Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary .

A special feature is the tower, which has a trapezoidal shape. Such irregular shapes were used in some castles to protect the structures from cannon fire . The bullets could ricochet without causing damage if they didn't hit the wall at a right angle.

research

At the beginning of the 20th century, the historian Josef Pekař wrote an extensive treatise on the castle and the manor of Kost, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries. For this purpose, he used archive material that had been in the possession of the Czernin family from und zu Chudenitz . The Czernin owned food from 1637 to 1738. The first part deals with the history of the castle and the noble owners, in the second part it describes the rule and the living and property conditions of the peasant subjects before the revolutionary year 1848. The two volumes of the “ Buches über Kost ”was self-published in 1910/1911, and in 1935 in the second edition by Melantrich in Prague.

In 2019, the remains of a brewhouse that operated here during the Renaissance and Baroque periods were uncovered.

literature

  • Hans-Ulrich Engel: Castles and palaces in Bohemia (= castles, palaces, mansions. Vol. 17). According to old templates. 2nd Edition. Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8035-8013-7 , p. 56 f., Ill. P. 181.
  • Josef Pekař : Kniha o Kosti. Kus české history. 2 volumes. Nákladem vlastním v komisi Klubu historického, Prague 1910–1911.

Web links

Commons : Burg Kost  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Kost in the Topographia Bohemiae, Moraviae et Silesiae  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freiherr in 1741 and Count 1759 (Bohemia Landtafel room CCIX Books, pp 220-226).
  2. ^ Austrian Association of Names and Coat of Arms dd December 22, 1878, diploma April 20, 1876.
  3. ↑ cf. Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families. Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , there: Netolitzky von Eisenberg, pp. 207 and 208.
  4. ^ Radio Prague from August 16, 2019

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 25 ″  N , 15 ° 8 ′ 6 ″  E