Hřídelík
| Hřídelík | ||
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 Remains of the Hřídelík Castle |
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| Castle type : | Rock castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Blíževedly | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 36 '23 " N , 14 ° 23' 40" E | |
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The ruin of the rock castle Hřídelík , (German old house , also small wave ) is located south of the place Blíževedly ( Bleiswedel ) in Daubaer Switzerland , Czech Republic . The sandstone cliffs sloping steeply to the south at 362 m above sea level. M. was built to protect the old trade route from Úštěk to Rumburk and Upper Lusatia , which ran through the Bleiswedeler Grund .
history
The first information about the castle, which was probably built by the Berka von Dubá , comes from the year 1292. In 1375 the Archbishop of Prague Johann Očko von Wlašim Hřídelík bought it from Hans Berka von Dubá. As the seat of burgrave Martin von Hrzidelik, it served the administration of the episcopal lands of the Helfenburg rule and as a prison for the Archdiocese of Prague . During this time the complex fell into disrepair and in 1395 there were plans to convert it into a Dominican monastery .
During the Hussite Wars the castle became extinct, it is believed that it was destroyed. Later it was listed in the cadastre as the old house or old castle.
After Augustin I. Bartolomäus Hille , Bishop of Leitmeritz, took office, he remembered the complex and had a pleasure palace built on the ruins. The building made of brickwork was so dilapidated after a short time that it was abandoned around 1850. Subsequently, the hollowed out and overhanging rocks became hiding places for beggars and tramps.
In 1906 the Bleiswedler innkeeper Franz Josef Pietzsch had the grounds cleared of the rubble and cleared the courtyard and some of the rooms in order to build a summer inn there that did not last long. Before the First World War, the rock caves were used as drying houses and laid out on the Lehnen hop gardens.
Castle complex
Only a few remains of the wall and the former moat, which is made up of old fruit trees, have survived from the original site.
Web links
- Hřídelík at hrady.cz (Czech)