Svébohy Castle, Renaissance fortified house in Svébohy, Czech Republic.
Svébohy Castle is a former noble residence in the village of Svébohy, part of Horní Stropnice in the České Budějovice district. The current building is a large rectangular two-storey Renaissance house with a western portal with rusticated jambs, two narrower side wings added in the early 17th century, and vaulted ground-floor rooms; the northern wing collapsed in the 1970s.
The first written record of the fortress dates from 1541, when Oldřich Pouzar had it entered in the land registers. The present Renaissance building was erected at the end of the 16th century by Petr Kořenský of Terešov, and Vincenc Hulcšporer of Holštejn added two narrower side wings in the early 17th century. After 1633 it passed to the Buquoy family and served only as farm buildings.
The fortress is privately owned and not open to the public; its former farmyard buildings were sold off and are now used for recreation. The name Svébohy is linked to the Žesťovcové family, who held the village from the late 14th century, and Petr ze Svébohovic is first mentioned in 1416.
The fortress is privately owned and in a state of disrepair, with a collapsed northern wing and structural damage to the southern wing. It is not open to the public, so access is not possible; the surrounding farm buildings have been sold and adapted for recreation.
The tower mentioned in 1577 gave the fortress its name in a local legend: Petr Kořenský of Terešov allegedly had his wife Markéta of Žumberk walled up there in spring 1577 for infidelity with Jakub Krčín. Miners from Velké Hory broke through the wall on 27 May 1577 and freed her.
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