Hrádeček

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Hrádeček
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Hrádeček (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Královéhradecký kraj
District : Trutnov
Municipality : Vlčice
Area : 215.5 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 35 '  N , 15 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '5 "  N , 15 ° 49' 39"  E
Height: 450  m nm
Residents :
Postal code : 542 41
License plate : H
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Street: Mladé Buky - Vlčice
Břecštejn castle ruins

Hrádeček , until 1950 Silberštejn (German Silberstein ) is a settlement in the municipality of Vlčice (Wildschütz) in the Czech Republic . It is located six kilometers northwest of Trutnov in the Hrádeček Nature Park. The Czech place name, which has been used since 1950, is a belittling form of Burg and roughly means "Bürglein", in Czech such name forms are common.

geography

The settlement consisting of a few scattered houses is located in the ground at the western foot of the ruins of Břecštejn and Silberštejn. The district of Hrádeček forms one of the two cadastral districts of the municipality of Vlčice.

Neighboring towns are Mladé Buky in the north, Kalná Voda in the northeast, Horní Staré Město , Peklo and Dolní Staré Město in the east, Trutnov, Volanov and Oblanov in the southeast, Vlčice in the south, Javorník in the west and Hertvíkovice in the northwest.

history

Stejn Castle , mentioned in 1336 in connection with Otto Lapide and later extinct, is said to have been on the site of today's Břecštejn Castle. The Trautenau chronicler Simon Hüttel even assumed in his “ Ancestral Table of the Silvar Family ”, written in 1593, that Berkstein Castle was founded in 1056 by the progenitor of Silvar, Wolf Ulstadt-Silvar . This historically untenable presentation can also be found later.

Břecštejn Castle was first mentioned in 1455 as the property of Nykl Zilvár von Pilníkov . It is believed that it served as a base for the Hussites during the occupation of Trutnov by Jan Žižka under his father Jan I. Zilvár as early as the 1420s . Adam I. Silvar von Silberstein gave the castle the new name Silberstein in the 1530s. In 1581 the Silvar von Silberstein gave up the Pilníkov Castle and made Silberstein and Wildschütz their headquarters.

Because of their participation in the Bohemian class uprising , the Silvar von Silberstein were expropriated by the emperor after the battle of the White Mountain . Their possessions were sold by the Bohemian Chamber to Albrecht von Waldstein in 1623 . In 1675, Johann Adolf I, Prince of Schwarzenberg, acquired the Wildschütz rule with the town of Pilníkov, and Silberstein Castle was described as desolate on the occasion of the purchase . In 1682 Johann Adolf I had a village built in the corridors of the abandoned Silberstein Meierhof in the bottom of the Silberstein brook. In 1834 the community of Silberstein consisted of eleven houses with 66 inhabitants. The three hell houses (peklo) located in hell near the hell ponds also belonged to Silberstein .

After the abolition of patrimonial, Silberštein formed a settlement of Vlčice (Wildschütz) from 1850. From 1880 the place was referred to as Silberstein and from 1930 as Silberštejn . After the Munich Agreement , Silberstein was added to the German Reich in 1938 as part of the Wildschütz community and belonged to the Trautenau district until 1945 . After the end of the Second World War, the place came back to Czechoslovakia. In 1950 the new officially Czech name Hrádeček was introduced instead of Silberštejn . In the second half of the 20th century the village became deserted and most of the houses were demolished. One of the houses was bought by Václav Havel in the 1970s .

House of Havel

Hrádeček became known as the summer residence of Václav Havel. Charter 77 was established in his home . He stayed here regularly for over four decades. He died in this house on December 18, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/78376/Hradecek
  2. ^ A b Johann Gottfried Sommer , Franz Xaver Maximilian Zippe : The Kingdom of Böhmen. Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 3: Bidschower Kreis. Calve, Prague 1835, p. 209.
  3. ^ The bilingual place names Riesengebirgsheimat, 19th year 1965
  4. ↑ http://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/1951-13

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