Rabštejnek Castle
| Rabštejnek | ||
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.jpg) Remains of the castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Rabštejn, Rabstein | |
| Creation time : | Late 13th century | |
| Castle type : | Spurburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Rabštejn | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 54 '16.8 " N , 15 ° 45' 10.6" E | |
| Height: | 385 m nm | |
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The ruins of Rabštejnek Castle , also Rabštejn (German Rabstein ) is a former Gothic spur castle on the territory of the municipality Rabštejnská Lhota in Okres Chrudim in the Czech Republic .
geography
The ruin is located 300 m west of the village Rabštejn on a small rock cliff on the northern slope of the wooded hill Rabštejnek (401 m nm) in the Iron Mountains . In the west and north the terrain drops steeply into the valley of the Markovický creek.
Surrounding places are Stolany in the north, Rabštejnská Lhota in the northeast, Rabštejn in the east, Smrkový Týnec in the southeast, Lipina in the south, Deblov in the southwest, Mýtka and Čejkovice in the west and Skupice in the northwest.
history
The time when the castle was built is not known. However, the original name Rabstein suggests that it originated during the reign of the last Přemyslid kings at the transition from the 12th to the 13th century, when it was customary for the Bohemian nobility to give their castles German names. The oldest news comes from the year 1390, when a Nikolaus von Rabstein was mentioned. The castle is documented for the first time in 1405 on the occasion of its return to King Wenzel IV after the death of Johann von Worel and Rabstein. The next owner was Dietrich von Worel, who sold the castle with the farm and four villages to Hertwig von Ostružno in 1437. Wilhelm von Ostružno sold the castle to Waniek von Wlkow in 1450, when it was first referred to as Rabštejnek . After the death of Jan Těchlovec von Těchlovice, the castle and the three associated villages Rabstein, Lhota and Týnec fell back to the Bohemian Crown as a settled fief in 1457; King Ladislaus Postumus left Rabštejnek to Petr Kdulínec of Ostroměř and Vilém of Dřel. At the end of the 15th century, the owner of the Slatiňany estate , Zikmund Šárovec von Šárov, bought the Rabštejnek castle . From 1525, his descendants only owned Rabštejnek , and in 1540 they also sold the castle to the royal city of Chrudim . Because of the city's participation in the uprising against the Habsburgs, King Ferdinand I confiscated their property in 1547.
He formed from a part of the confiscated Chrudim goods from the castle Rabštejnek, the fortress, the court and the village Slatiňany as well as nine other villages existing Slatiňany, which he sold at the end of 1547 to Johann von Pernstein . This sold the rule in 1548 to the captain of the Chrudimer Kreis , Hermann Lhotsky von Zasmuk. His widow Barbara sold the manor to Jindřich Franěk von Liběchov in 1555. In 1575 his son Jan Franěk von Liběchov left the rule to Bohuslav Mazanec von Frymburk. Until then, Rabštejnek Castle, with the exception of the short time it was owned by Chrudim, served as the residence of the lords of the castle and was maintained. Major modifications were never made. Bohuslav Mazanec had the Slatiňany Fortress rebuilt into a representative chateau and after its completion moved its seat from Rabštejnek to Slatiňany. He left the remote and uncomfortable castle to decay in 1585. At the beginning of the 19th century the desert castle had largely collapsed with the exception of a low wall.
In the second half of the 19th century, Franz Joseph von Auersperg on Nassaberg had the remains of the inner castle rebuilt, not exactly true to the original, in the spirit of the Romantic era. The east wall of the palace was thereby placed in the courtyard. The window holes in the north and west walls were broken open to form pseudo-Romanesque window reveals. The torso of the palas received a wooden monopitch roof. In the interior of the palace, Count von Auersperg had a hall furnished with carved furniture and a chamber set up, also without taking historical structures into account. The purpose of the building was to allow hunting parties to stay during the hunts in the adjacent manorial zoo. After the Second World War, the rooms of the hunting lodge were devastated. Later the roof also collapsed.
The ruin was declared a cultural monument in 1964. In 2014 the Czech state forest company sold the ruin to three enthusiasts who want to preserve it.
investment
The castle was protected to the west and north by the steep cliff facing the Markovický potok valley. On the plateau southeast of the castle was the farmyard from which the village of Rabštejn emerged. The two-part system consisted of the actual castle and an adjoining outer bailey to the south .
The outer bailey, surrounded by a stone wall, had a rectangular floor plan and was separated by ditches in the south from the hilltop and in the north from the castle. Below the castle the walls of the outer bailey formed a small kennel. It is believed that the outer bailey buildings were wooden.
The actual castle consisted of a square tower with a side length of nine meters, which stood on the highest point of the castle rock, as well as the hall to the west of it with the ground plan of an irregular quadrilateral. Between these two buildings, which were enclosed by the castle wall, was a small inner courtyard. On the south side of the castle wall a small gate led to the outer bailey. The northern castle wall was reinforced by a round bastion.
The moat, foundation walls of the outer bailey, small remains of the walls of the Zwinger, low remains of walls of the inner castle and the outer walls of the palace, which have been greatly modified by the renovations of Count Auersperg, have been preserved.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Rabštejnská Lhota
- ↑ hrad Rabštejn / Rabštejnek, zřícenina ÚSKP 16765 / 6-948 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
- ↑ http://www.floowie.com/cs/cti/metro-praha-8-4-2014/#/strana/4/zvacseni/100/