Velešín castle ruins
| Velešín castle ruins | ||
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 Remains of the chapel on the Velešín castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | around 1230 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Svatý Jan nad Malší | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 49 '56 " N , 14 ° 28' 44" E | |
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The castle ruin Velešín (German Weleschin ) is the ruin of a hilltop castle opposite the town of the same name Velešín and belongs to the municipality of Svatý Jan nad Malší in the Okres České Budějovice in the South Bohemia region in the Czech Republic. It has been a protected cultural monument since 1958. The next neighboring castle along the Maltsch is Pořešín in the south.
history
The royal castle Velešín was in the first third of the 13th century by Přemysl Otakar I or his son Wenceslas I built. Přemysl Ottokar II handed the castle over to the nobleman Čéč from Budweis in 1265/66 in exchange for areas he needed to found the city of Budweis and the Hluboká nad Vltavou castle . After a short time the castle came to a branch of the Markwartinger , namely the lords of Michalovice, who sold it to Ulrich I von Rosenberg in 1387 . In 1423 the Hussites tried in vain to conquer the castle. In the second half of the 15th century the strategic importance of the castle declined and it was partially destroyed on the orders of the Rosenbergs in 1487. In 1541 it is mentioned as abandoned.
See also
literature
- Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 .
- August Sedláček : Hrady, zámky a tvrze království Českého (German castles, chateaus and fortresses of the Kingdom of Bohemia). Volume III, Prague 1884, 308 pages, section Velešín Hrad on pp. 221–228 ( digitized on archive.org; Czech)
Web links
- Hrady na Malší (German castles on the Maltsch ). In: hradynamalsi.cz (homepage of the Association for the Preservation of Castles Pořešín, Louzek , Sokolčí , Velešín and Tichá ; Czech).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 37390 / 3-1460 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
- ↑ a b c Velešín Castle . In: Online encyclopedia encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz about Krummau .
- ↑ Sedláček 1884, p. 228.