Rýzmburk Castle (Eastern Bohemia)

Rýzmburk castle ruins

The Rýzmburk Castle (German: Riesenburg ) in Eastern Bohemia belonged to the castle system of the Bohemian national defense. Their remains are in the district of the same name in the municipality of Žernov , Okres Náchod , Czech Republic .

location

The ruins of the Rýzmburk are located on the left bank of the Aupa , in the area of Babiččino údolí ( Grandmother's Valley ). Neighboring towns are: Žernov in the east, Červená Hora , Boušín and Slatina nad Úpou in the northeast , Litoboř, Světlá and Hostinka in the west, Vestec and Ratibořice in the south .

history

The Rýzmburk was first mentioned in 1319. Together with the Výzmburk and the Rothenburg it belonged to the castle system of the Bohemian national defense at that time. It is believed that all three castles were built by Peter von Skalitz ( Petr ze Skalice ) and his sons Tas and Sezema with the support of the Bohemian King Ottokar II Přemysl . Later it came to the Lickové z Rýzmburka. At the beginning of the 15th century it was owned by Beneš from Rýzmburk and Krčín . The castle, which is described as abandoned in 1595, served as the seat of the rulers of the same name until the 16th century.

1534 acquired Johann von Pernstein (1487-1548) , who in the same year by his brother (1490-1534) Vojtěch of Pernštejn the rule Nachod had inherited the reigns Rýzmburk and Adersbach and Skály and they rested on his rule Nachod. In 1543 he sold the Rýzmburk and Skalý dominions and a year later the entire Nachod dominion to the Smiřický of Smiřice . In 1595 Rýzmburk was owned by Frederick of Újezd and Kaunitz ( Bedřich z Újezdce az Kounic a na Kamenici ). In that year he sold the indebted rule Rýzmburk to Wilhelm von Talmberg ( Vilém z Talmberka ), from whom his brother Jan von Talmberg inherited it about a year later. He sold the castle and manor Rýzmburk with the towns of Červená Hora and Žernov and the villages of Mstětín, Olešnice, Skalka , Stolín, Víska and Všeliby on April 12, 1601 to Sigmund / Zikmund Smiřický of Smiřice as guardian of his 10-year-old Mündels Albrecht Václavy Smiřice. Because of their participation in the Bohemian uprising of 1618, the possessions of the Smiřický von Smiřice were confiscated after the Battle of the White Mountain in 1621.

In 1623 the Bohemian Chamber sold Rýzmburk together with Nachod of Maria Magdalena Trčka von Leipa . In 1628 or a year later, Nachod sold it to her son Adam Erdmann Graf Trčka . After his death in Eger in 1634, the Nachod estate was again confiscated.

The Rýzmburk estate remained in the possession of the respective owners of the Nachod estate until the estate was abolished.

Remnants of the ruins of the Rýzmburk, the building material of which is said to have been partially used in the reconstruction of the Ratibořice Castle, are freely accessible for viewing.

literature

Lydia Bastecká, Ivana Ebelová (Eds.): Náchod. (History, culture, lidé). Nakladatelství Lidové Noviny, Prague 2004, ISBN 80-7106674-5 , pp. 64, 65, 82 and 89.

Web links

http://www.hrady.cz/?OID=371

Individual evidence

↑ Jaroslav Sula: Rokytnice v Orlických Horách a Mauschwitzové of Armenruh . Ústí nad Orlicí 2010, ISBN 978-80-7405-086-2 , p. 17
↑ Jaroslav Čáp: Trhová registra Rýzmburského panství z roku 1600. In: Jaroslav Šůla. Sborník příspěvků k šedesátinám (= Dissertationes historicae 6). Historický Klub - Pobočka Hradec Králové et al., Hradec Králové 1998, ISBN 80-7041-085-X , pp. 17–56.

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[1] Jaroslav Sula: Rokytnice v Orlických Horách a Mauschwitzové of Armenruh . Ústí nad Orlicí 2010, ISBN 978-80-7405-086-2 , p. 17

[2] Jaroslav Čáp: Trhová registra Rýzmburského panství z roku 1600. In: Jaroslav Šůla. Sborník příspěvků k šedesátinám (= Dissertationes historicae 6). Historický Klub - Pobočka Hradec Králové et al., Hradec Králové 1998, ISBN 80-7041-085-X , pp. 17–56.