Kunětická Hora Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Kunburg, Kuneberg, Kunietitz | |
| Creation time : | 13./14. Century | |
| Place: | Ráby | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 4 '48 .2 " N , 15 ° 48' 47" E | |
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The Kunětická Hora Castle (German Kunburg , Kuneberg , also Kunietitz Castle ) is located on the summit of the Kunětická Hora ( Kunietitz Mountain ) in the municipality of Ráby in Okres Pardubice , Czech Republic .
history
According to Kronyka Czeská by Václav Hájek of Libočan , Kunak, a cousin of Duke Křesomysl, and his wife Zdislawa are said to have laid out a spacious courtyard below the mountain in search of a place for a new manor. The following year he is said to have built a wooden Kunakowa Hora castle on the mountain . Many years later the village of Kunaticze was built near the Kunaken farm , and people named the castle after the village.
According to other records, a castle of the Templar Order stood on the mountain in the 13th century , which fell to the Bohemian Chamber when the order was dissolved in 1307. Archaeological studies have shown that since the second half of the 14th century at the latest, a relatively large castle complex with two towers and a palace as well as an extensive outer bailey had existed on the mountain. Since only indirect mentions exist from this period, the ownership structure and the date of the transfer of the abandoned castle to the Benedictine monastery in Opatowitz are also unknown. The information contained in older writings, according to which the Lords of Pardubitz acquired the castle at the time of Charles IV and are said to have used the title of Kuneburg and Kunburg , is obviously based on confusion; The "Albrecht von Kuneburg from the House of Pardubitz" listed in this context, who sold the Blatník fortress and its accessories to the Opatowitz monastery in 1377 , is Albrecht von Cimburg .
Documentary evidence only dates from the first half of the 15th century. In 1421 the Hussite captain Diviš Bořek von Miletínek occupied the ruin and expanded it into his seat. The Kunburg , which was completed in 1423, became the center of an important East Bohemian rule from 1436, when Diviš Bořek was assigned the castle and a large part of the former monastery villages. At the end of the 15th century Wilhelm von Pernstein acquired the dominions of Pardubitz and Kunburg and united them. In 1499 he had the castle redesigned. On March 21, 1560 Jaroslav von Pernstein sold the rule of Pardubitz with Kunburg to King Ferdinand I. His successor Maximilian II transferred the administration of the royal rule to the court chamber . During the Thirty Years War the castle was captured and devastated by the Swedes in 1645. In 1681 it is mentioned as abandoned. The quarries of the town of Königgrätz on the slopes of the castle hill led to further destruction.
During his visit on May 9, 1820, Emperor Franz I assured the restoration of the ruined castle, but nothing happened. Emperor Franz Joseph I pledged the kk camera rule Pardubitz in 1855 as a government bond to the Oesterreichische Nationalbank , which sold the rule on June 25, 1863 to the kk privileged Österreichische Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe. In 1866 the industrialist Heinrich Drasche acquired the rule. On June 18, 1881 Richard von Drasche-Wartinberg bought the manors of Pardubitz and Kunětická Hora for 2,080,000 guilders from his father's inheritance. The official negotiations with the imperial family regarding the commitment made in 1820 dragged on until 1895, after which they were discontinued without any result.
According to plans by Dušan Jurkovič , the castle was reconstructed at the beginning of the 20th century on behalf of the Pardubice Museum Association. Richard von Drasche-Wartinberg, a sponsor of the association, leased the castle to him on October 1, 1917. In the course of the first land reform, he transferred the castle to the association's property in 1920. At the beginning of the 1950s, the castle was nationalized and placed under the legal ownership of the Pardubice District Monuments Committee. In 1983 the castle was restored, which was accompanied by extensive archaeological excavations. In 1997 the castle became the property of the Regional Center for the Preservation of Monuments and is now under the control of the Ministry of Culture, Pardubice Monuments Office. On January 1st, 2002, the Kunětická Hora Castle was declared a National Cultural Monument of the Czech Republic.
Web links
- Castle website
- Description of the castle
- Description with pictures (German)
- Description on the website of the municipality of Ráby
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hrad Kunětická Hora ÚSKP 23715 / 6-2127 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).