Helfenburk

Keep and housing the castle Helfenburk

The castle Helfenburk ( German: Helfenburg ) is a ruined castle five kilometers east of the town Bavorov in Okres Strakonice. It is located on the 683 m high mountain Malošín.

History

The Helfenburk castle was built after 1355 with the approval of the Bohemian King Charles IV of brothers Peter, Jobst, and Johann Ulrich von Rosenberg. It was the seat of the same rule, which, the town Bavorov and Strunkovice and villages Hracholusky, Vitějovice, Žernovice, Nebahovy, Svojnice, Žíchovec, Nová Lhota, two villages called Lhota, Leskovec, Blanice Svinetice, Budyně, Netonice, Radějovice, Kváskovice rocks, Zaluzi, Měkynec, Krajníčko, Szczecin, Utesov and Hájek included, and has been extended to a settlement in the second half of the 15th century. Wok von Rosenberg sold in 1475 a part of the rule for 5500 Hungarian Gulden hereditary to John of Swan Mountain, Peter IV of Rosenberg bought back these 1503 by Ulrich and Heinrich Prüschenck of Stettenberg and united him again with the Helfenburg.

1593 sold the last Rosenberg Peter Wok von Rosenberg dominion Helfenburg with the then already abandoned Helfenburg Prachatice. From 1622 the castle was in the possession of the Bohemian noble family Swan Mountain, where in 1719 the Prince Schwarzenberg followed. After the land reform of 1919, the castle became the Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918. Subsequently, the fortifications were renewed in the 1920s. 1977, the keep was rebuilt to a lookout tower.