Hrad Veveri - Czech Republic
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N 49° 15.397 E 016° 27.723
33U E 606386 N 5457010
Veveri Castle
Waymark Code: WMTZAX
Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/27/2017
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Veverí Castle is one of the oldest castles in the Czech Republic. During its more than 800 years long old history castle grew from small hunting lodge to the one of the biggest castles in the country.
According to legend, the castle Veverí ("squirrel" in Czech) was founded by Premyslid Duke Conrad of Brno in the middle of the 11th Century, then only as a hunting lodge (?). Nevertheless, the first credible recorded mention about the castle is from the years 1213 and 1222, when King Premysl Otakar I used the fortified castle as a prison for rebellious peers. Initially, it was apparently a wooden or masonry (?) residence situated near the Romanesque church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary west of the present compound. In the 1220s a stone castle on the extremity of the rocky promontory behind a deep moat cut out of the rock started to grow. The so-called keep is the only structure which has remained well-preserved from this oldest building stage.
Visit Instructions:
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