Vízmburk Castle
The ruins of the Vízmburk Castle (German meadow castle ) are located west of Červený Kostelec in the okres Trutnov in the Czech Republic .
history
The ruins of Vízmburk Castle are located above a wooded headland above the Aupa , which was built in 1279 by the East Bohemian aristocrat Tas von Wiesenburg ( Tas z Vízmburka ) or by his father Peter von Skalitz ( Petr ze Skalice ). It is believed that the nearby castles of Rýzmburk and Červená Hora also go back to this. All three castles are located in the Aupa valley and originally served the national defense of Bohemia due to their proximity to the border with Silesia .
From 1309 the fortress belonged to the knight Milotov von Netluk ( Milotov z Pnětluk ), after 1323 Ernst the Elder . Ä. by Hostin ( Arnošt z Hostyně ), father of the first Prague Archbishop Ernst von Pardubitz . Arnošt the Elder Ä. z Hostyně included the eight kilometers south to Hostyně . Between 1325 and 1332 he exchanged the rule of Vízmburk with the brothers Hynek Hajman and Hynek Crha von Dubá for the rule of Pardubitz . They also acquired the rule of Großskalitz and Hohenbruck and initially owned the estates jointly.
After the division of 1336 Vízmburk belonged to the Hynek Crha von Dubá, from whom it passed to his son Hynáček . He bequeathed it to his eldest son Johann von Dubá and Nachod ( Jan z Dubé a Náchoda ). His son Georg von Dubá and Wiesenburg ( Jiřík z Dubé a Vízmburka ; † 1450) took part in armed conflicts on the side of King Sigismund during the Hussite Wars and received the Schleb Castle in 1436 for the services it acquired . He took up residence in Schleb, where he died around 1450 without heirs.
In 1447, Silesian princes acquired the castles Wiesenburg, Adersbach , Schatzlar , Burg Bischofsstein and Belver as well as the associated lands. Since these castles on the border to their dominion represented a danger and some of them had become robber barons' nests, with the exception of Schatzlar Castle, they were destroyed and burned down by the Silesians. Probably from the middle of the 15th century the rule of Wiesenburg came to the later Bohemian King Georg von Podiebrad , from whom his son Duke Heinrich d. Ä. inherited. He pledged the Wiesenburg property in 1482 to the governor of Glatz, Hans von Warnsdorf , but demanded it back three years later. Since both Hans von Warnsdorf and his son-in-law, the Königgrätzer provincial governor Friedrich von Schumburg ( Fridrich ze Šumburka ) refused to hand over the goods, legal disputes arose, which ultimately went in favor of Heinrich the Elder. Ä. were decided. For reasons unknown, he sold the Wiesenburg goods a short time later to his Glatzer court marshal Zbynek von Buchov ( Zbyňek z Buchova ), to whom he pledged the Nachod rule in 1484–1488 . After that, the goods probably belonged to Peter von Dubá on Adersbach , who sold them to Jan Špetle von Janovice ( Jan Špetle z Janovic ) between 1516 and 1519 . He permanently linked the rule Wiesenburg with his rule Nachod.
Building description
The inner courtyard of the Výzmburk is said to have taken up an area of 30 to 40 square meters. The keep was surrounded by residential buildings, a large hall, a chapel, a kitchen and a forge. The remains of the ruins can be viewed.
literature
- Lydia Baštecká, Ivana Ebelová (eds.): Náchod. Lidové Noviny, Prague 2004, ISBN 80-7106-674-5 , pp. 26, 32-33, 55, 59-60, 64.
- Martin Šandera: Jindřich I. Minsterberkský - První hrabě Kladský a jeho majetková základna. In: Kladský sborník 6, 2005, ISSN 1212-1223 , pp. 7–21, here pp. 7–19.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zdeňka Hledíková : Arnost of Pardubice. Vyšehrad 2008, ISBN 978-80-7021-911-9 , pp. 16-19 and 25.
- ↑ Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , p. 864.
- ↑ Marin Šandera: Jindřich starší z Minstrberka. Vyšehrad 2016, ISBN 978-80-7429-687-1 , p. 218.
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ' N , 16 ° 3' E