Sloup v Čechách

Sloup v Čechách (German Bürgstein) is a municipality with 717 inhabitants in the north of the Czech republic, in the southern Ausläufern of the Lausitzer of mountains. The village is appropriate about 2 kilometers southeast for the city Nový boron (Haida) in the valley of the Dobranovský potok (Doberner brook).

A settler stone (opinion from 1831)

Sloup was mentioned for the first time in the year 1324. The most important object of interest of the village is the rock castle a settler stone, which into a unmarried sandstone rock was built, which rises 40 meters over the valley soil. The castle probably originates from late 13. Century. Since 1596 are it uninhabited, in the year 1639 became it destroyed of Sweden. The castle received its current names from the a settlers, those the caves, tunnels and resounding in rock during 18. Century used, extended and changes. Today the plant for visitors is accessible. In the village a baroque castle that 1735 were finished , is as well as some affectionately restored houses in people building method.

Sloup is the homeland of the sculptor family max, those among other things in Prague was active and the dramatist and publisher Ferdinand Mikovec. In the Cikánské údoli (gypsy reason) close at the village is the forest theatre, where in the summer also pieces are specified. The rock at the mountain-slopes of Slaviček and Šišák are a popular terrain for climbing and moving.

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