Date made: 2010-08-22
Czocha – fortified castle located in the border town of Dry, municipality Forest, on the Lagoon Leśniańskie on Kwisa in the Polish part of Upper Lusatia. The original name was probably Czajków (1329: castrum Caychow), before 1945 Tzschocha.
It was created as a border fortress on the border of the Silesian-Lusatian years 1241?1247 the order of the Czech king Wenceslas I. In 1253 handed over to the bishop miśnieńskiemu von Weisenow (Lausitz were then part of the Czech koruna).
In 1319 year as a dowry and the surrounding lands was included in the duchy of Henry I of Jawor. After the death of a relative in 1346 took it, together with the whole principality of the deceased, Bolek II Small, Prince swidnicko-jaworski. After the death of Princess Agnes, Bolek's widow, under the system of survival of the Emperor and King of Bohemia Charles IV returned to the Czech Republic. From 1389?1453 in the estate of knightly families von Dohn and von Klüks. At the beginning of the fifteenth century unsuccessfully besieged by the Hussites, finally conquered by the branch Czirnina in 1427 in the absence of owners. The reflected briefly later.
Purchased in 1909 year by the Dresden tobacco manufacturer (Cigar) Ernsta Gütschowa za 1,5 million marks, do 1912 was rebuilt by the famous architect of the Berlin Bodo Ebhardt in accordance with the appearance of surviving in the figure of 1703 year. During the reconstruction of destroyed but many of the earliest fragments of the complex. The moat decorated zoo. Gütschow maintained good relations with the court of the tsar, and after the revolution of Russian emigrants, when purchasing various items of high artistic value. In the castle lived until March 1945 year. Leaving the castle exported the most valuable piece of equipment. During World War II, the castle housed the school szyfrantów Abwehr. Probably stored here device to decipher Soviet messages (operation, code-named Sword Fish-).
After World War II, the castle underwent various vicissitudes. He was repeatedly robbed, by both the Russians and the indigenous looters, of furniture and equipment. Committed the biggest theft 1 February 1946 the mayor of the Forest ? Kazimierz Lech together with Krystyna von Saurma ? castle librarian, who discovered the castle storage ? deporting a truck full of possessions castle (crown jewels of the Romanovs, 60 busts of the Russian tsars, 100 icon, porcelain tableware, jewelry, images), with which he managed to get to the American occupation zone. Then, for a short time lived in the refugees from Greece, hall of knights who kept livestock, thus complementing the work of devastation. From 1952 Military Holiday House and for this reason the property was kept secret and was not present on maps. Since September 1996 available to the public as a hotel and conference center. The owner of the 2006 year was the Military Property Agency.
Picturesque buildings of the castle were the backdrop uprising movies: Where is General?, The Witcher, Legend[2], Poza Lasem Sherwood (Beyond Sherwood Forest)[3] and a series Stronghold of secret codes, Two worlds (Spellbinder) and First Love.
Information from the cited http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamek_Czocha
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| exposure: | 8, 1/200s, ISO100 |
| type: | Spherical panorama |
| HDR: | so, fusion + tone mapping |
| location: | Sucha k/Leśnej (Silesian) |