Hasištejn Castle

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Hassenstein Castle with moat and bridge

The Hasištejn (German hatred Stone ) is located in the Bohemian Erzgebirge at 627  m above sea level above the village of Místo (place) in the district Chomutov ( Czech Republic ) and is one of the oldest castles in the Ore Mountains. It was the place of activity of Bohuslaus Lobkowicz von Hassenstein .

history

The castle was built at the beginning of the 14th century, probably in 1320. A fortress to protect the trade route from Zwickau to Kaaden and the Kingdom of Bohemia was probably already in the middle of the 12th century . The first written information about the once royal castle can be found in Majestas Carolina , in which King John the Blind regulated the inheritance relationships in the event of his death. In 1348 the castle came into the possession of the Lords of Schönburg .

On April 13, 1348 a Friedrich von Schönburg, Herr zu Hassenstein, was enfeoffed with the town of "Gythain" ( Geithain ). In 1351 Charles IV gave the Schönburgers the rule of Hassenstein with the cities of Preßnitz (today flooded) and Schlettau . On May 20, 1360, Landgraves Friedrich and Balthasar of Thuringia issued a letter of protection for one of Friedrich von Schönburg, Herr auf Hassenstein.

In 1417 Wenceslaus IV had the castle besieged because the lord of the castle Heinrich von Plauen on Beschau was in league with the robber barons Boresch von Riesenburg and Tista von Pfraumberg. Under the leadership of his cousin of the same name, the knight Heinrich von Plauen and the castle bailiff Liderius Horek, the castle was successfully defended for some time. Only with the support of Nikolaus von Lobkowitz the capture succeeded in 1420 and the castle was enfeoffed. When he died in 1435, his sons Nikolaus II and Johann Popel shared the inheritance. In 1437 the Schönburgers sued Johann and Nikolaus von Lobkowitz at the Bohemian court court for the return of the castle, which was forcibly taken from them in 1420. The lawsuit was apparently unsuccessful.

In 1459 King Georg von Podiebrad granted Hassenstein mountain freedom. In the same year, Friedrich III. the brothers von Lobkowicz in the imperial baronage . The rule of Hassenstein comprised numerous localities in Saxony and Bohemia, such as Schlettau, Preßnitz or the villages around Kaaden, but not the city that was royal property.

Around 1600 a large part of the rulership had returned to the possession of the Bohemian crown through the exchange of lands. In 1606 this also affected the castle, which Emperor Rudolf II sold to Leonhard von Steinbach (Stampach), who was expropriated and expelled from the country after the battle of the White Mountain . After the end of the Hassensteiner Lobkowicz, the castle fell into disrepair, as the Stampach lived in the castle in Hagensdorf ( Ahníkov ). The former Hassenstein office no longer existed either. In 1891 the owner Emanuel Karsch had extensive security and renovation work carried out on the castle, which has been described as desolate since 1634. His son of the same name also continued the work to preserve the ruins. The Hagensdorf lordship , which had been united with Brunnersdorf from 1773 , was expropriated in 1927 as part of the Czech land reform . The Hassenstein and the Dominium were privately owned by the Karsch family until 1945, who also owned a brewery and a canning factory.

description

View over the castle from the keep
  • There is a restaurant on the right at the entrance gate where tickets are sold.
  • In the courtyard in front of the castle, stairs lead to a huge vaulted cellar. Right next to it, a kiosk is open on the weekend.
  • The castle chapel from the beginning of the 14th century consists of the nave, which was originally equipped with a rib cross vault, and a square presbytery . The triumphal arch that separates the two rooms is made of sandstone and Gothic forms. At the beginning of the 15th century, a staircase was built into the reinforced south wall of the chapel. It enabled access from the ship to the grand grandstand above the entrance and further to the new wing of the palace, created through a connection between the chapel and the old palace.
  • A spiral staircase from the end of the 15th century probably led to the living quarters above the chapel.
  • In the pavement of the forecourt, a sandstone channel is visible, which served as a base for ceramic water pipes.
  • From the keep you have a view of Místo (square) and the brown coal power stations in the Egertal.

Personalities

owner

Say

There are several legends about Hassenstein Castle:

  • "Schön-Gutta von Hassenstein"
  • "The treasures of the Hassenstein"

literature

  • Friedrich Bernau : Hassenstein. A contribution to the history of the Ore Mountains. Johann Künstner, Bohemian Leipa 1893.
  • Jiří Crkal, Milan Sýkora: Hrad Hasištejn a jeho role v rámci šumburského panství. Hassenstein Castle and its role in the Schoenburger rule. In: Regina Smolnik (Ed.): ArchaeoMontan 2014. Results and perspectives. International symposium Dippoldiswalde 23 to 25 October 2014 (= work and research reports on the preservation of monuments in Saxony. Supplement 29). Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-943770-16-2 , pp. 137–150.
  • Dobroslava Menclová : The Hassenstein castle ruins. Historical and art historical overview of the castle. Vlastivědné Muzeum, Chomutov 1971.
  • Viktor Karell : Castles and palaces of the Ore Mountains and Egertal. Vol. 1, Vinzenz Uhl Verlagbuchhandlung, Kaaden , 1935. (Burg Hassenstein pp. 54–60)
  • Karl Jentscher: Hassenstein ruins , Komotau 1912.
  • W. Hassenstein: Hassenstein then and now , paper mill near Roda (Stadtroda in Thuringia), 1904.

Web links

Commons : Hasištejn castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reiner Groß: Schönburgische Geschichte. A timetable. Edited by Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel and Tommy Schmucker. Chemnitz 2005, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Reiner Groß: "Schönburgische Geschichte, Eine Zeittafel", editors: Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel, Tommy Schmucker, Chemnitz 2005, p. 8
  3. ↑ Reiner Groß: "Schönburgische Geschichte, Eine Zeittafel", editors: Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel, Tommy Schmucker, Chemnitz 2005, p. 9
  4. ↑ Reiner Groß: "Schönburgische Geschichte, Eine Zeittafel", editors: Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel, Tommy Schmucker, Chemnitz 2005, p. 10
  5. ↑ Reiner Groß: "Schönburgische Geschichte, Eine Zeittafel", editors: Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel, Tommy Schmucker, Chemnitz 2005, p. 10
  6. ↑ Viktor Karell : Castles and palaces of the Ore Mountains and Egertal. Vol. 1, Vinzenz Uhl Verlagbuchhandlung, Kaaden , 1935. Legends about Hassenstein Castle, pp. 101–104

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 42.5 ″  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 26.3 ″  E