Radosno Castle
| Radosno Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Freudenburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1250 | |
| Castle type : | Spurburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Sokołowsko | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 41 '8.6 " N , 16 ° 15' 49.4" E | |
| Height: | 777 m npm | |
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The ruins of Radosno Castle (German Burg Freudenburg ) are located in the Waldenburger Bergland in Poland. The border with the Czech Republic runs two kilometers south. The village of the same name, which went under after 1945, was about four kilometers southeast of the Freudenburg.
geography
The ruins of the Freudenburg are located in the south of the Waldenburger Bergland, two and a half kilometers east of Sokołowsko (Görbersdorf) . Neighboring towns are Rybnica Leśna (Reimswaldau) in the north, Grzmiąca (Donnerau) in the northeast, Łomnica ( Lomnitz ) and Trzy Strugi ( Dreiwässertal ) in the west and Granna ( Grenzthal ) and Radosno ( village Freudenburg ) in the southeast. Beyond the border are Pomeznice ( border villages ), Vižňov and Ruprechtice in the south .
topography
About 1500 meters north of the mountain range Dürre-Gebirge - consisting of the peaks Heidelberg (936.0), Suchawa / Dürre Berg (927.6) and Schirlich Köppel (906.0) - is the Freudengraben , a small side valley which runs downhill in an east-west orientation towards Sokołowsko (Görbersdorf). Freudenburg Castle was built on the western edge of a mountain spur which protrudes into this valley from the southeast. The hilltop of the castle is only about 25 meters above the valley floor, so a water supply was not a problem. Over a saddle that runs parallel to the Freudengraben creek only about 50 meters south of the castle crest, the medieval road passed the castle (ravine in the west). The castle was accessed from the east as a branch of this road. The Hornburg castle ruins (in Polish: Rogowiec ) are in the neighborhood . It is about four kilometers (as the crow flies) in an easterly direction.
history
The Freudenburg was probably built in the second half of the 13th century. It belonged to the castle system of the Bohemian national defense and was administratively counted to the Glatzer Land . It was the counterpart to the north-eastern Silesian Horn Castle , which Duke Bolko I of Schweidnitz built in 1292. The Freudenburg was first mentioned in 1350 as a royal fiefdom that was owned by Mertin von Swenkinvelt. In that year the castle district of Freudenburg consisted of the villages Friedland , Göhlenau , Raspenau , Rosenau , Schmidtsdorf , Neudorf , Waltersdorf , Görbersdorf , Kindelsdorf , Merkelsdorf , Halbstadt and Wernersdorf . In 1356 the castle district Freudenburg belonged as a fief to the Hersko de Razdialowicz, in 1359 it was given to Duke Bolko II for special services .
After Bolkos II's death in 1368, his widow sold the fief to the Lords of Pogarell , from whom it passed in 1376 to the Lords of Seidlitz and in 1388 to the Lords of Rechenberg . During the Hussite Wars , the Freudenburg was a base for the Hussites . The alleged destruction of Freudenburg between 1426 and 1428 is not documented by sources. Since the middle of the 15th century, the Freudenburg castle district, together with the villages of Altfriedland, Friedland, Göhlenau, Görbersdorf, Langwaltersdorf, Neudorf, Raspenau, Rosenau, Schmidtsdorf and Olbersdorf, belonged to the Fürstenstein dominion . Olbersdorf was also called Ullersdorf and was destroyed in the Thirty Years War. In its place, after 1661, the village of Freudenburg was built around a glassworks .
1483 was the joy castle, which had become a robber barons, from Schweidnitzer Governor Georg von Stein destroyed and because they had no strategic importance, not rebuilt. Parts of the tower and the masonry are still preserved. The castle district of the Freudenburg, together with the Fürstenstein lordship and the Hornschloss, passed to the Bohemian chancellor Johann von Schellenberg ( Hanuš z Šelnorfu a Hornšperka ) as pledged property in 1497 and in 1605 to Conrad von Hochberg ( Hoberg; Hohberg ). In the 19th and 20th centuries the ruins of the Freudenburg were a popular destination for spa guests from Görbersdorf.
literature
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 104-105.
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 595.
Web links
- Historical and current recordings
- Villages belonging to the Freudenburg castle district (PDF file; 20 kB)
- Freudenburg Castle District
Individual evidence
- ↑ TK25 sheet 5363 Friedland (1936 edition) digitized version ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
