Košťál
| Košťál | ||
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 Košťál from Třebenice seen from |
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| height | 481.1 m nm | |
| location | Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Central Bohemian Uplands | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 29 '25 " N , 13 ° 59' 5" E | |
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| Type | Kegelberg | |
| rock | subvolcanic breccia | |
| Development | Foundation of Košťálov Castle in the 14th century. | |
The Košťál (German Kostial ) is a 481 m high cone mountain near Třebenice ( Trebnitz ) in the south of the Bohemian Central Uplands in the Czech Republic .
The ruins of the Gothic castle Košťálov ( Kostial ) are on the top . Košťálov is one of the most striking examples of a castle on the top of a cone mountain , as it is typical for the north of Bohemia. The stately remains of the castle's residential tower are still preserved today .
The mountain, which slopes steeply into the Modeltal valley in the south and west , was once called Přípek and was mentioned by Cosmas of Prague in the Chronica Boemorum when he described the meadow war between the Přemyslids and the Lutschanen .
It was declared a natural monument in 1960 on an area of 6 hectares because of its vegetation . This is intended to protect the vegetation on the rocky slope and the debris above Třebenice by warmth-loving plant communities - in particular the spring adonis and the Bohemian pasque flower .
history
Košťálov Castle was probably built at the beginning of the 14th century to secure the extensive property of the Prague Monastery of St. George in the Bohemian Central Uplands. It was first mentioned in a document in 1372, when lightning struck and burned the boots of Burgrave Alesch von Slavietin. It consisted of the lower castle with the farm buildings and the upper castle with the palace buildings. Since the 15th century, the castle has belonged to the chaplain to Sulewicz , who built more accessible and equipped facilities with the castle Skalka and the upper fortress Tschischkowitz . Despite its uncomfortable location, the castle was used until the middle of the 16th century, when it was called desolate at the beginning of the 17th century.
Hardly anything is left of the lower castle, the last wall collapsed in 1883. The rectangular donjon of the upper castle is visible from afar , from which the remnants of the upper wall that protruded beyond it fell in the 20th century.
literature
- Tomáš Durdík : Castles of Northern Bohemia. Propagační tvorba, Praha 1992, ISBN 80-85386-50-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Domas / M. Opletal (ed.): Geologická mapa ČR, List 02-43 Litoměřice . Praha (ÚÚG) 1990, signature 35
