Ruchomperk
| Ruchomperk | ||
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 South side of the outer bailey |
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| Alternative name (s): | Smoking mountain | |
| Creation time : | Transition from the 12th to the 13th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Černíkov | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 26 '1.7 " N , 13 ° 6' 58.2" E | |
| Height: | 641 m nm | |
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Ruchomperk (German Smoking Mountain ) is an abandoned hilltop castle on the Velký Kouřim in Okres Klatovy , Czech Republic .
geography
The castle Ruchomperk was one and a half kilometers northwest of the village Černíkov on the top of Velky Kouřim ( Welky Kaurzim , 641 mnm) in the Chudenická vrchovina ( Chudenitzer Bergland ).
history
Little is known about Ruchomperk Castle, its owners and its demise. The only written mention was made in 1404 in connection with Marusch Czernik von Zigarrenberg.
The castle was probably built at the transition between the 12th and 13th centuries and fell into desolation half a century later. Until the end of the 20th century, based on the nobility predicate Czernin von Rauchberg used from the second half of the 14th to the beginning of the 15th century, it was assumed that the castle existed until the 15th century and that Marusch Czernik von Zigarrenberg ( Maruš Černík z Ruchomperka ) was the last lord of the castle, after whose death the castle became extinct and fell to the Puschberg rulership . Recent research assumes that the Czernin von Rauchberg no longer had any relation to this castle.
The Rauchberg Castle was built in the time of King Ottokar I Přemysl either as a support point for the fortifications of the Kingdom of Bohemia or as the seat of the royal courtier Černín of Drslavice. The location of the castle in the middle of an unpopulated forest area indicates a country fortification, which may have been built and administered by Černín von Drslavice on the royal order. Since the fall of the castle occurred at the time of the expulsion of the knights Czernin von Drslawitz, it cannot be ruled out that they may have seized the castle beforehand.
When the Puschberg reign fell back from the property of Ernst von Hirschstein ( Arnošt z Herštejna ) to the Crown of Bohemia in 1457, only the forests and the Kuřím hill were mentioned, but not the castle. When Johann Zajíc von Hasenburg sold half of the Puschberg estate to Jiřík von Říčany in 1462, the Kouřim forest with the deserted Ruchomperk castle was listed.
In a description from 1830, remains of castle walls and a well are mentioned. According to local legends, an underground passage is said to have led to the Pušperk Castle .
In his work Kniha o Švihově a okolí , published in 1927, the archivist and local history researcher František Teplý mistakenly equated the Čirnperk fortress with the Ruchomperk castle.
The excavations carried out in 1989 showed that the castle was built at the transition from the 12th to the 13th century and was only inhabited for about 50 years.
description
The castle was probably a mostly wooden transitional type between an early medieval castle and a medieval castle. It was created as a two-part complex with an oval floor plan, although it is no longer possible to determine which of the two parts formed the main castle. Presumably the larger upper part formed the main castle and the smaller lower part the outer castle. Only ditches and walls are preserved.