Varta Castle
Varta Castle | ||
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Creation time : | 14th century | |
Conservation status: | ruin | |
Place: | Olešnice | |
Geographical location | 50 ° 39 '29 " N , 14 ° 7' 24" E | |
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The Burg Varta (German Warta ) is located in Olešnice ( Waldschnitz ) in rechtselbischen Czech Central Mountains in the Czech Republic . From the medieval castle, only a few remains of walls, moats and ramparts located on a hill are preserved.
history
At the end of the 14th century, the castle and the manor belonged to the Škopek branch of the Lords of Dubá , who also owned the Liebeschitz manor in the southeast . When Beneš Škopek von Dubá handed over the rule to his son of the same name in 1397, it included the surrounding villages of Groß-Priesen with two outbuildings , Klein-Priesen , Wittine, Ostrowie (desert?), Welchen, Sulloditz, Presci, Malschen in addition to the castle and the Varta farm , Budowe, Waltirz, Wittal, Pschira. Between 1399 and 1401 she came from Beneš Silný (the strong) Škopek von Dubá to the Wartenbergs on Tetschen. The people of Wartenberg put castle captains on Varta, among whom Otto von Luckau was involved in a feud for Schreckenstein Castle against his masters in 1405. It is unclear whether Varta Castle survived the Hussite War. Only Groß-Priesen is mentioned below as the whereabouts of the Wartenbergers. Varta Castle no longer appears in the sources after 1465.
Web links
- Description of Varta (Czech)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Reliquiae Tabularum Terrae Regni Bohemiae , Vol. 1, p. 570.
- ↑ Cf. Friedrich Bernau, Nochiges vom "Wartener Schlosse" , in: Mittheilungen des Nord-Bohemian Excursions-Clubs 7 (1884), p. 182. Ders., Sperlingstein and Warta , Mittheilungen des Nord-Bohemian Excursions-Clubs 3 ( 1880), p. 15f.
- ↑ Cf. Georg Pilk, documentary contribution to the history of Schreckenstein Castle , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen 28 (1890), p. 289. Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae , Vol. I Part B.2, No. 682.
- ↑ See Art. Varta, in: Hrady, zámky a tvrze v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku, Vol. 3, Prague 1984, p. 495.