Nový Hrádek (Thaya)
| Nový Hrádek u Lukova | ||
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 Image from 1871. |
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| Alternative name (s): | Neuhäusel castle ruins | |
| Creation time : | from 1358 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Lukov | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 50 ′ 20 " N , 15 ° 54 ′ 27" E | |
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The castle ruins Nový Hrádek (German Neuhäusel ) belong to the municipality Lukov nad Dyjí in the Znojmo district in the Czech Republic. The ruin of the hilltop castle is about 10 km southwest of Znaim at the narrow point of a loop of the Thaya . The castle is a double complex, consisting of a lower and an upper castle.
history
The first owner mentioned in a document, Margrave Johann Heinrich von Luxemburg , had the lower castle built high above the Thaya from 1358. From 1420, the Eitzinger family , who held Kaja Castle on the opposite bank of the Thaya , owned the castle. In the 15th century, the so-called upper castle was added to the complex. In 1517 Michael von Eincingen sold the Neuhäusel estate together with the desert Schenkenberg Castle to Adam von Batschkowitz on Joslowitz . From 1617 the Lords of Althann , who could also call the nearby Vranov (Frain) Castle their own, owned the castle. The castle was destroyed in 1645. The inadequately fortified castle was captured and destroyed by Swedish troops under General Torstenson during the Thirty Years War . The upper castle was restored as a hunting lodge and summer residence, the lower castle has been in ruins since then. The castle ruins have been state-owned since their confiscation in 1920. From the end of the 1950s until 1989, the castle ruins lay in the strictly guarded border zone of the Iron Curtain . It was only since the Velvet Revolution that anyone could visit the ruins again.
Today Nový Hrádek lies in the core zone of the Podyjí National Park .
literature
- Jiří Kacetl, Petr Lazárek, David Molík: Hrady a zámky moravsko-rakouského Podyjí slovem / Castles of the Austro-Moravian Thaya Valley in words. South Moravian Museum in Znojmo in cooperation with the Retz City Museum, Znojmo 2013, ISBN 978-80-86974-12-5 ( PDF on znojmuz.cz; German and Czech).