Kamičak fortress
| Kamičak fortress | ||
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 Ruins of the former medieval fortress |
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| Alternative name (s): | Castrum Kamichach, Kamichack | |
| Creation time : | 14th Century (?) | |
| Castle type : | Summit Castle ( Felsenburg ) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Construction: | Ashlar | |
| Place: | Krka National Park , Croatia | |
| Geographical location | 43 ° 52 '48 " N , 15 ° 58' 48" E | |
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The fortress Kamičak [ Kamitschack ] (Kamichech, Kamichach, Kamichack, Camichach) is a south in Croatian National Park Krka preferred Burgruine . It is located on a rocky hill in the area between the island of Visovac and the Roški slap waterfall . Once an important fortress, it was badly damaged during the expansion of the Ottomans in what was then Croatia in the first half of the 16th century, so that only ruins have survived to this day.
history
The fortress was first mentioned in the middle of the 14th century, when King Ludwig of Anjou confirmed the possession of Prince Ivan Nelipić in a document in 1345 . Below the fortress, according to oral tradition, was the court of King Petar Svačić , the last king of Croatia with an ethnic Croatian origin and who was born there. The noble family Nelipić was a branch of the old Croatian family of Svačić (Snačić).
The last member of the noble family, Prince Ivaniš Nelipić († 1434), gave the fortress to Ivan VI as a dowry from his daughter Katarina. Frankopan, Ban of Croatia. King Sigismund of Luxemburg did not recognize this, but gave Kamičak to the Talovac family for their services. A little later the fortress came into the possession of the Utješinović family. Cardinal Juraj Utješinović , the son of Grgur / Gregor Utješinović, later a Croatian-Hungarian cleric and statesman , was born there in 1482 . His sister Ana married the nobleman Bartol Drašković and from this marriage the later influential Croatian Ban Juraj Drašković von Trakošćan emerged.
In 1490 Kamičak was owned by the Halapić brothers, who were present at the election of King Ladislaus II Jagiello . Marko Mišljenović , Ban of Croatia 1506–1507 and a renowned fighter against the Ottomans , also comes from Kamičak .
When the Ottoman Empire conquered large parts of what was then southeastern Croatia in the first half of the 16th century, Kamičak also fell into their hands in 1522/1523. The fortress was badly damaged and then abandoned, of no particular importance to the Turks. It stayed that way until today.
See also
- List of castles and chateaus in Croatia
- Turkish Wars
- Croatia in personal union with Hungary
- Krka National Park
Individual evidence
- ^ Official website of the city of Drniš: Medieval fortresses. In: Grad Drniš. October 23, 2012, accessed September 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Vjekoslav Klaić Croatian Kingdom in the 15th century and in the first quarter of the 16th century , page 144