Szczerba Castle
| Szczerba | ||
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 Access to Szczerba Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Śnielin (German: Schnallenstein) | |
| Creation time : | before 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Spurburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Międzylesie , Różanka | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 11 '41.4 " N , 16 ° 37' 12.3" E | |
| Height: | 660 m npm | |
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The ruins of the castle Szczerba (German castle buckles Stone also Schnellenberg stone ; polish also Śnielin ) is in Habelschwerdter Mountains (Polish Bystrzyckie ) on a rocky hill spur between the villages Różanka ( Rosenthal ) and Gniewoszów ( side village ). It belongs to the municipality of Międzylesie ( Mittelwalde ) in the powiat Kłodzki ( Glatz district ).
location
The castle ruins are located about two kilometers (as the crow flies) northwest of the center of Różanka at a bend in the road to Gniewoszów, to the east of the castle the Höllenflössel brook cuts the road, and there were also two mills. The main entrance to the castle was from the northwest.
history
Schnallenstein Castle was probably built in the 11th century by the Bohemian sovereign to secure a trade route that led from Senftenberg into the Neisse Valley and on via Glatz to Silesia. It was first mentioned in 1361 as "Snellinsteyne". At that time it belonged to Otto von Glubos ( Glaubitz ), who called himself Otto von Schnallenstein and who also owned part of Oberschwedeldorf and Wernersdorf . After his death around 1400, Schnallenstein, to which Ebersdorf and Langenau also belonged at the time, inherited his eldest son Bernhard, who is still listed as the owner of Schnallenstein for the year 1424, who held the office of Glatzer Landes-Unterhauptmann. After the Hussites captured and destroyed the castle in 1428, it was not rebuilt. The castle and its subordinate villages reverted to the Bohemian king by reversion .
Although the castle was not rebuilt, its name was revived after the Governor Michael Wenzel von Althann acquired several villages in the Habelschwerdt district from the Bohemian Chamber and connected them to the Schnallenstein rule . After Rosenthal developed into the capital of this rule, it was also called "Herrschaft Rosenthal".
literature
- Eduard Ludwig Wedekind : History of the county Glatz. Chronicle of the cities, towns, villages, colonies, castles etc. of this sovereign county from the earliest past to the present . Neurode 1855, pp. 32–33, item 31.
- Karl August Müller: Patriotic images, or history and description of all castles and knight palaces in Silesia and the county of Glatz. Second edition, Glogau 1844, pp. 119–121.
- Joseph Kögler : The chronicles of the county Glatz. Revised and edited by Dieter Pohl . Volume 4: The chronicles of the villages, parishes and lordships of the Habelschwerdt district. Pohl, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-927830-18-6 , pp. 109–161 ( historical sources of the Grafschaft Glatz. Series A: Ortsgeschichte NF 4).
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 479.
- Günther Grundmann : Castles, palaces and manor houses in Silesia . Volume 1: The medieval castle ruins, castles and residential towers , 1982, Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich , Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-803-51161-5 , p. 13f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tk25 sheet 5865 Rosenthal (1884) - (as a digital copy ) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
