Nové Hrady - town and castle

Nové Hrady is the largest town in the Nové Hrady Mountains, just a few kilometers from the state border with Austria. That is why it was already an important border fortress in the Middle Ages. It was found from old sources that the Vítkov family built a medieval castle in the 13th century on the site of the original Slavic fort - on a rocky outcrop above the Stropnicí river - which was inherited by the Švamberk family in 1615. However, they did not enjoy the castle for long. City…