Skály Castle

Skály Castle
Place:	Teplice nad Metují
Geographical location	50 ° 34 '18.7 "  N , 16 ° 8' 30.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '18.7 "  N , 16 ° 8' 30.1"  E

The Skály Castle (also Bišofštejn or Katzenštejn ; Katzenstein Castle ; also Bischofstein Castle ) is located in Skály ( Bischofstein ), a district belonging to the town of Teplice nad Metují ( Weckelsdorf ). It is located near the Adršpach-Weckelsdorf rock town in Okres Náchod in East Bohemia in the Czech Republic .

history

Skály Castle ruins

Skály Castle was first mentioned in 1393 as Skála (rock) . At that time it belonged to Matthew Salava of Lipá ( Matej Salava z Lipé ), who was supposed to defend the border to the Silesian Duchy of Schweidnitz from here . After the son of the same name, Matej Salava, who was a follower of the Taborite Jan Kolda von Žampach , forays into Silesia from the castle, it was destroyed by the Silesians and soon rebuilt. 1466 belonged Castles and Power Skály the Glatzer Governor Hans von Warnsdorf , who sold it to Hynko Špetle of Johnsdorf 1488th He was followed by Bartholomäus von Münsterberg , a grandson of the Bohemian King Georg von Podiebrad . After Bartholomäus' death in 1515, the rule returned to Hynko Špetle in 1528. This sold the property to Zdenko Lev von Rosental and Jan Kruschina von Lichtenburg . 1534 acquired Johann of Pernstein , the same year by his brother Vojtěch of Pernštejn the rule Nachod had inherited the reigns Skaly, Adersbach and Rýzmburk and they rested on his rule Nachod. In 1543 he sold the Skalý and Rýzmburk dominions and a year later the entire Nachod dominion to the Smiřický of Smiřice . The castle was subsequently abandoned; the fortress below was converted into a farmyard. After the Battle of White Mountain , the Smiřický were expropriated from Smiřice because of their participation in the Bohemian class uprising . In the course of the division of the estate between the brothers Věněk Skoch and Bernart Hertvík Čertorejský von Čertorej, governor of the Königgrätzer Kreis († February 14, 1654) the rule Katzenstein (Skály) was divided in 1625; Bernart Hertvík received the rule of Stárkov .

In 1662 the newly founded Diocese of Königgrätz acquired the ruined castle with the associated farm yard as a donation for the cathedral chapter . The place and castle were renamed Bischofstein from this point on .

The first Bishop of Königgrätz, Matthäus Ferdinand Sobek von Bilenberg , had a small castle built in the forecourt of the former castle, which was used by the cathedral chapter as a summer residence. Bischofstein castle and rule remained in the possession of the diocese until 1948.

Web links

Commons : Skály Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Radio Praha: On historical traces in the wild rocky landscape: Jiraskovy skaly - Bischofstein , January 13, 2007
• Bischofstein - Skály near Heimatkreis Braunau / Sudetenland eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lydia Bastecká, Ivana Ebelová (ed.): Náchod. (History, culture, lidé). Nakladatelství Lidové Noviny, Prague 2004, ISBN 80-7106674-5 , pp. 64-65.
2. ^ Diaries and diaries from Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach, p. 782