Střekov Castle
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The castle Střekov (German horror stone) is today a well-preserved castle ruin. It is located in the urban area of Ústí nL ( Aussig ad Elbe ) in the Bohemian Central Uplands in the Czech Republic . The Střekov is best known for the painting Überfahrt am Schreckenstein by Ludwig Richter, which is in the New Masters Gallery in Dresden . The location of the castle on a steep, monolithic Klingstein rock, which rises 100 meters above the Elbe and is a symbol of northern Bohemia, is remarkable. Large parts of the castle are still preserved today or have been rebuilt, such as the keep , the palace and the castle walls.
history
In 1316, the Bohemian King John of Luxembourg lent the area of the later castle to a Prague citizen in order to build a castle to protect the shipping route on the Elbe. The horror stone was first mentioned in 1319, when Pešek von Weitmühl received the new castle as a fief . Only shortly afterwards, the Schreckenstein came into the possession of the Wartenbergers from Tetschen . In the Hussite Wars (approx. 1420–1430) many persecuted Catholics found refuge on the Schreckenstein.
At the beginning of the 16th century, the possession of the horror stone changed several times, from 1563 Wenzel Popel von Lobkowitz became lord of the castle. Around 1570 the castle was rebuilt and expanded again. In 1601 the castle became the property of the von Lobkowitz family . At the beginning of the 17th century, the castle was no longer permanently inhabited and gradually fell into disrepair. The castle was looted four times during the Thirty Years War .
In the 19th century, the picturesque castle complex became the destination of first travelers. Well-known painters such as Ludwig Richter and Caspar David Friedrich as well as Ernst Gustav Doerell stayed at the castle and captured them in romantic pictures. In 1830, the first castle inn was set up in the former farm yard, which still exists today. In 1842 the composer Richard Wagner visited the Schreckenstein and was inspired for his opera Tannhäuser .
The first securing work on the castle ruins was carried out at the end of the 19th century and in 1911/12. A turning point for the castle area was the construction of the tenth barrage of the Elbe-Moldau regulation in the years 1923–1936 directly under the castle rock. As important as this dam is for safe navigation on the Elbe, the facility is a particularly blatant example of the destruction of a cultural landscape.
In 1948 the Lobkowitz was expropriated after almost 400 years and the castle became state property. In 1953 the facility was placed under monument protection. After 1990 the Lobkowitz family was rehabilitated and their property was returned.
In the 1999 film Die Hard Dracula , the castle served as the backdrop for Count Dracula's castle .
literature
- Vlastimil Pažourek (Red.): Castles in the border region between Saxony and Bohemia . Iniciativa pro Děčínský Zámek, Děčín 2012, ISBN 978-80-905025-1-2 , pp. 115–121.
- Tomáš Durdík : Castles of Northern Bohemia. Propagační tvorba, Praha 1992. ISBN 80-85386-50-X .
- Franz J. Umlauft: The horror stone. A description and history of the castle . 2nd, improved edition. Self-published, Aussig 1939.
Web links
- Official homepage (Czech, English)
- Description of the horror stone (German)
- Description of the horror stone (Czech)
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '20.9 " N , 14 ° 3' 2.9" E