Rychmburk Castle
The Rychmburk Castle (German Castle Richenburg , also Castle Reichenberg ) is located in the municipality of Předhradí in Pardubický kraj in the Czech Republic. It is located 25 km southeast of Chrudim .
geography
The castle is located northeast of the village of Předhradí on a spur above the confluence of the Lešanský potok with the Krounka in the Skutečská pahorkatina ( Skutscher hill country ).
history
The area of Rychmburk was in royal possession and was transferred to the Tas of Mrdice by King John of Luxembourg at the beginning of the 14th century . He had a castle built around 1325, which he initially called Reichenberg . It became the seat of a great lordship, which the lords of Pardubice acquired before 1361 . From 1390 the poet Smil Flaška from Pardubice lived in the castle. He passed the rule, which at that time comprised 59 villages and the towns of Skuteč , Hlinsko and Svratka , in 1392 to Otto von Bergow and Boček II of Podebrady . At the beginning of the Hussite Wars , the castle served as a refuge for the East Bohemian Catholic nobility and the bourgeoisie. In 1454 King Ladislaus Postumus sold the rule of Richenburg to Jan Pardus von Horka and Vratkov. In 1547, Richenburg was confiscated as the property of Wilhelm von Waldstein because of his participation in the uprising of 1547 from Emperor Ferdinand I in his capacity as King of Bohemia.
In the first third of the 16th century Rychmburk was again in the possession of the Lords of Waldstein, who arranged for an extensive renovation. In 1558 the chief judge and captain of Chrudim , Zdeněk Berka of Dubá and Lipá bought the rule. At the end of the 17th century, the Berka von Dubá had further modifications made and a new west wing built. The castle served them as a manor until 1714, but is described as abandoned in the middle of the 18th century. Around 1800, under Philipp Joseph Graf Kinsky, the castle complex was redesigned for residential and commercial purposes. This sold the rule in 1823 to Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis . The princes of Thurn and Taxis held the estates, which included Svratka and Karlštejn Castle , until 1945. After the end of the Second World War, the property of the princes of Thurn and Taxis was confiscated and nationalized.
literature
- Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , p. 518.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 9.3 " N , 16 ° 2 ′ 34.7" E