Žacléř Castle

Žacléř Castle

The Žacléř Castle (German: Schatzlar Castle ) in the village of the same name Žacléř belongs to the Okres Trutnov in the Hradec Králové region in the Czech Republic.

history

In the place of the current castle above the town of Žacléř there was initially the Schatzlar fortress, the name of which was later transferred to the town of “Bornflos” / “Bernstadt” below the castle. The fortress is said to have been built as a protective castle under Duke Soběslav I in 1136 and fortified around 1250. It was probably used to guard the Trautenauer Steig, a section of the old trade route from Prague via Königgrätz and Trautenau to Silesia .

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1334, when it was pledged to Berthold von Leipa by the then Bohemian King John of Luxembourg and his son, the margrave and later Bohemian King Charles IV . From 1346 the castle was a fiefdom of the Glatzer burgrave Albrecht von Krenowitz , who had to cede it to the knights Konrad and Ulrich von Wolffersdorf in 1353 . After 1361, Emperor Charles IV transferred Schatzlar Castle together with the Trautenau fief and the city of Königinhof to Duke Bolko II and his wife Agnes . After Bolko's death in 1368, Duchess Agnes exercised the rulership rights. In 1368 Hans von Seidlitz acted as burgrave, who was followed a year later by the Duchess' huntsman, Hinko von Seidlitz. After the death of Duchess Agnes in 1392, the castle fell to King Wenceslaus IV as a settled fief , who presumably handed it over to Peter von Seidlitz for administration.

Schazlar Castle and Börnstadt 1814

During the Hussite Wars , Schatzlar Castle served the Catholic Silesians as a base to ward off the Hussites . In 1430 it was conquered by the Hussites. After 1436 it was often pledged, including in 1440 to the North Bohemian knight and later governor of the county of Glatz , Hans von Warnsdorf , who repeatedly undertook armed raids against the Silesian cities from Schatzlar. Although the Silesians managed to acquire some castles and then destroy them, Schatzlar Castle was spared. With the condition that the castle could be entered at any time, the Silesians handed Schatzlar Castle over to the brothers Hans, Kunz and Ulrich Liebenthaler in 1447. They were followed by the brothers Georg and Christoph Zedwitz, who sold Schatzlar to the later King Georg of Podebrady . In 1448 he again handed the castle over to Hans von Warnsdorf, from whom it came to the Lords of Schönburg ( Schumburg ). Due to excessive indebtedness, Hermann von Schönburg had to cede Schatzlar Castle to the brothers Johann and Wilhelm Kruschina von Lichtenburg in 1521 , but still retained the right to live in the castle. After he was accused of damaging the country, a punitive expedition under the Bohemian governor Karl von Münsterberg burned the Schatzlar castle down in 1523 . In 1534 King Ferdinand I signed the Schatzlar castle and manor to Count Johann von Hardegg as an advance payment to the County of Glatz, which he had ceded to the Crown of Bohemia .

Žacléř Castle

In the same year Hardegg handed over his claim to the royal chief miner Christoph von Gendorf , who had owned the Hohenelbe rule since 1533 . He built a renaissance castle on the site of the destroyed castle. After further changes of ownership, the Schatzlar castle and estate passed to the Viennese Jesuits in 1636. They had the castle , which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , renovated at the beginning of the 18th century. During the War of the Bavarian Succession , the castle was shot at by the Prussian army in 1779 and some of it burned down. It was restored in the 19th century. The castle is currently inaccessible.

literature

• Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , pp. 544-545.
• Friedrich Bernau: Lordship of Schatzlar. In: Karl Prätorius (Ed.): Schatzlar. A Sudeten German city in the Bohemian Giant Mountains and the district municipalities. Wenzel, Marburg / Lahn 1993, pp. 95-105.

Web links

• History ( czech )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Prätorius: Comparative Timeline Böhmen – Trautenau – Schatzlar . In: Schatzlar and its district communities . Marburg / Lahn 1993, p. 619
2. ↑ not clear whether Zedwitz or Seidlitz, as different information or spellings in the sources

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 59.4 "  N , 15 ° 54 ′ 13.9"  E