At Kynžvart Castle, bats replaced the beer in the cellars

Above the small town of Lázně Kynžvart rises the ruins of a medieval castle, which was built in the 13th century to protect the trade and military route on the border of Western Bohemia and Chebsko. In the valley below, at the end of the 16th century, the lords of Cedvice built a Renaissance fortress. The most famous owner of the estate was Clemens Wenzel Lothar Johann Nepomuk, 2nd Prince von Metternich-Winneburg, in the years 1821-1848 Chancellor of the "Habsburg…