ÄŒastolovice

Častolovice ( German: Častolowitz of batteries also: Tschastolowitz ) is a patch in the district Rychnov nad Kněžnou in the Hradec Králové Region Region in the Czech Republic.

Geography

Častolovice located southwest Rychnov nad Kněžnou, about 30 kilometers east of Hradec Králové ( Hradec Kralove ) at the confluence of Kněžna, Bela Adler and Wilder. The town extends along both the rivers and on the slopes of the low mountain range that separates the Elbe Valley of the landscape Orlicko.

History

The beginnings of the town rich probably back to the 13th century, when the surrounding area of the Eagle promontory was settled. It is believed that Častolowitz was founded by a Častolov of the family of Ronowitzer. The initial naming of Častolowitz is occupied documented for 1342, when it held by the state judge Puta Elder. was of Častolowitz and King John of Luxembourg, the village rose to the town.

After the death of Puta this year of 1434 Častolowitz inherited his widow Anna, born of Kolditz, his possessions. They sold their possessions in Eastern Bohemia in 1440 to her future husband Hynek Kruschina of Lichtenburg. He admitted the mother of the late Puta of Častolowitz, Anna of Auschwitz, a lifelong use of Častolowitz. A few weeks after Hynek Kruschinas death in 1454 sold his son Wilhelm Kruschina Častolowitz and other East Bohemian possessions to Georg von Podiebrad from which it. Upon his son Henry the Elder passed from Münsterberg, who probably sold it around 1495 to Wilhelm II of Pernštejna.

With the acquisition of the town in 1577 by brothers John, William and George of Oppersdorff began an economic upturn. Friedrich the Elder. of Oppersdorff built the former water castle into a Renaissance castle, which developed into a cultural center. From 1684 Častolowitz was owned by Count Czernin of Thomas Chudenitz, from which it in 1694 a Bohemian Colonel Viscount Wratislaw Adolf von Sternberg acquired. In inheritance Častolowitz went to the Sternberg family - Manderscheid, who had the dominion to the replacement of patrimonial 1848 and the castle with the dominions thereunto belonging to the expropriation in 1948.

In 1890 Častolowitz 1240 inhabitants. With the railroad connection in 1893 was followed by another economic boom. In 2006 the place to Městys was charged.

Attractions

• Castle Častolovice
• The church, dedicated to St. Vitus ( Kostel sv. Víta ) was probably built in the 14th century. 1771-1775 it was rebuilt at the instigation of Philip Franz von Sternberg in Baroque style.