Prácheň Castle
| Prácheň | ||
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.JPG) Remains of the round tower |
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| Alternative name (s): | Prachin | |
| Creation time : | after 1315 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Velké Hydčice | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 18 '57.6 " N , 13 ° 40' 54.1" E | |
| Height: | 504 m nm | |
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The ruins of the Gothic castle Prácheň (German castle Prachin ) are located one and a half kilometers southwest of Horažďovice in Okres Klatovy in the Czech Republic . It is one of the oldest castles in Bohemia .
geography
The hilltop castle is located at 504 meters in the hill country of Bavorovská vrchovina on the Prácheň hill of the same name above the Otava valley .
history
According to archaeological finds, there was a wooden Slavic Gauburg on the hill at the end of the 10th century, which was named as the center of the Gaus Prachin in 1045. The first documentary evidence came in 1184, when the progenitor of the Witigonen , Witiko von Prčice , was appointed castellan on Prácheň. Diviš von Divišov, who was castellan of the castle from 1222, is the progenitor of the Lords of Sternberg . His appointment is also the last news about the Gauburg of the Přemyslids . It is believed that afterwards the Lords of Strakonitz served as castellans on Prácheň.
The castle was abandoned in the second half of the 13th century and left to decay. King Přemysl Ottokar II lifted the office of Prachin in 1268, he transferred the jurisdiction in the Prachin Gau to the Church of St. Peter and Paul on Vyšehrad and the execution to the Lords of Strakonitz. Later the royal city of Písek became the new administrative center of the Prachin district.
King John of Luxembourg donated the ruined castle with the village Poříčí and shares in Broziedl, Domoraz and Prácheň in 1315 to Bavor III. von Strakonitz and allowed him to build a new stone castle. Bavor III. united the Prácheň estates with those of the Strakonice castle . In 1336 the childless Wilhelm Bavor von Strakonitz signed the rule of Strakonitz to the Sovereign Order of Malta . With the death of Břeněk von Strakonitz, the Bavor von Strakonitz family died out in 1404. His inheritance, including the Prácheň castle, fell to Zdenko von Rosental , who also took over the executioner's office in the Prachin district in 1405. During the Hussite Wars , the outer bailey with the village of Prácheň was destroyed, only the Church of St. Kliment . Later the castle belonged to Jan and Racek from Kocov on Horažďovice , who showed no interest in maintaining the castle. The next owner was Půta Švihovský von Riesenberg . At the beginning of the 16th century he had the castle repaired and in 1505 he wrote it over to his wife Ursula as a morning gift along with other goods . The castle was abandoned in the middle of the 16th century. Since 1558 it has been called desert .
description
Since there are no contemporary representations or descriptions of the castle, its shape can only be reconstructed from the remains that have been preserved. The facility extended over the ridge of the Prácheň hill, which slopes steeply to the west and north to the Otava valley. The castle was accessed via the gently sloping eastern flank of the Prácheň, at the foot of which is the Prácheň farm. In the south of the inner castle , the inner courtyard with the residential and farm buildings was connected to an outer bailey , which was separated from it by an inner wall with a round tower .
Parts of the round tower, remains of the eastern castle wall with four bastions and rubble mounds of the other parts of the outer and inner wall have been preserved.
Web links
- Description on hrady.cz , accessed on September 20, 2014