Tocník Castle by Antonín Pucherna - Tocník, Czech Republic - Paintings Then and Now on Waymarking.com

"The end of the rocky ridge of the Zámecký Hill was inhabited in prehistoric times already. The path makes a U turn here, hence the name Tocník – in Czech, it refers to “the turning point”.
The ancient inhabitants dug a small pond in front of the castle, as a water cistern. In the second half of the 14th century, a small hunting castle stood on the highest point of the rocky ridge, already with the current tower.

After 1395, when the lower castle Žebrák was damaged by fire, Wenceslas IV (1361–1419) built here a residential castle for the Bohemian and Roman king.

The new castle was the last type of Bohemian castles with reduced defensive functions; it was primarily built for residential purposes, and structurally it’s halfway between a castle and a chateau.

The castle was never conquered; instead, it was destroyed from the inside by locals who used it as a shelter from the Swedes during the Thirty Years War."

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Tocník Castle stands on a rocky ridge that rises from the valley in which the village of the same name - Tocník village - is located.
The current layout of the area, which is depicted in the painting, is quite different from the painting - the only thing that has not changed is that the castle still stands on its original location on the hill above the village. There is a stream running through the valley, but it is not visible due to the dense development of houses and mature trees. The formerly almost bare hill is now covered with a continuous forest. Only the roof part of the castle is visible above the forest.


Antonín Pucherna (1776 Lisko in Halic - 12 June 1852 Prague-Malá Strana) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, draughtsman, engraver and teacher. Antonín Pucherna studied in the graphic workshop of František Karel Wolf and in 1805-1808 at the Prague Academy under Antonín Herzinger and Josef Bergler. Pucherna together with F. K. Wolf published watercolour etchings of castles.

Website of painting. Exact URL of painting is required: [Web Link] Artist: Antonín Pucherna Date of Your Photograph: 06/06/2023 Medium of Painting: watercolour etchings Date of Painting: Not listed

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