Starojičínský hrad
Facts and practical information
Starý Jičín - the ruins of the castle located within the Stary Jaczyn commune in the New Joczyn poviat in the Moravian Silesian country in the Czech Republic.
The castle was probably founded in the 1930s by Arnold of Hückeswagen, the owner of the surrounding goods, from which the Hukwald state later formed. The first mention of the castle comes from 1240. It was built in a wooden fortress place, on a hill called the Starojiczyn mound today.
It was a powerful castle at first called Gyczyn. He was to guard the trade route connecting the Adriatic and Baltic as well as protect the border of the Kingdom of the Czech Republic from Poland and Hungary. After Arnold, Dobra was embraced by his son, Franko, who sold them between 1252 and 1258 to Bishop Olomouc Brun of Schauenburg. Franko obtained from him a part of his old goods and moved his headquarters to Hukwald. Meanwhile, the name of the Gyczyn Castle and the borough under it transformed into Jiczyn and from 1397 to Stary Jiczyn, to distinguish from New Jiczyn.
The feudal state subordinate to the castle was owned by the coffee -free family, and from 1500 Żrotin. In 1626, the castle was captured by the Danes, and soon, after the Thirty Years' War, he deserted and fell into ruin.
Castle foundations, fragments of the defensive walls and the tower at the entrance gate, which were reconstructed.
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