Zubštejn Castle
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 Front view of the ruin |
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| Alternative name (s): | Zubstein | |
| Creation time : | Early 13th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Kobylnice | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 31 '50 " N , 16 ° 19' 35" E | |
| Height: | 687 m nm | |
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The ruin of the Zubštejn Castle (also Zubrštejn ; Lapis or Kámen ; German Zuberstein ) is located between the villages of Kobylnice and Pivonice in the Okres Žďár nad Sázavou in the Czech Republic .
Geographical location
The hilltop castle is located in the hill country of Nedvědická vrchovina in the southern part of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands on an elongated, wooded knoll about 500 meters above Pivonice. The surrounding towns are Kobylnice in the northeast, Koroužné in the east, Švařec and Borovec in the southeast, Lesoňovice in the southwest and Pivonice in the west. Two kilometers to the north are the Pysseletz castle ruins and the same distance to the northwest are the remains of the Aueršperk castle .
history
The Zubštejn Castle was named after the head of an aurochs ( Zubr in Czech ), which adorns the coat of arms of the Lords of Pernstein. It was founded at the beginning of the 13th century by a branch of the family of the later Lords of Pernstein , who initially called themselves "de Lapide" or in Czech "z Kamene". Some family members also used the suffix "von Zubrstein" ( z Zubštejna ).
The name of the castle was first documented in 1344 in the addition of Archleb / Atluš and Emmeram / Jimram de Lapide ( Jimram z Kamene ). In 1348 it fell into disrepair and was called a former castle. A little later it was restored.
Due to indebtedness, the nobles "de Lapide" and "von Medlov" had to sell the Zubrstein rule, which reached as far as Neustadtl and also included the villages of Rokytno and Zubří , to the margrave Johann Heinrich in 1358 . He had the castle expanded and enlarged. His son Jobst of Moravia pledged it first to Jan von Křižanov and in 1397 to the lords of Kunstadt . In 1446 Johann von Pernstein was able to regain power. In the middle of the 1460s he gave the castle and rule over to his son Sigmund von Pernstein. After his death in 1473, both fell as the widow of his widow Elisabeth von Boskowitz, who lived with her small daughters at the Zubštejn castle. After her remarriage to Linhard von Guttenstein ( Linhart z Gutštejna ) before 1476 , the castle fell back to her father-in-law Johann and his second-born son Wilhelm II von Pernstein , who died in 1521.
Between 1522 and 1547 the castle was abandoned and fell into disrepair. After becoming a robber's nest in the middle of the 17th century, it was destroyed.
Parts of the palace , keep and castle wall as well as the fountain have been preserved from the castle .
