Drahlín Castle, Fortified house in Drahlín, Czech Republic.
Drahlín Castle is a vanished fortified manor in Drahlín, north of Příbram. It was a motte-type stronghold on the southwestern edge of the village, of which only a round castle site survives: a central mound about five metres high, surrounded by a nine-metre-wide ditch and a three-metre-high rampart.
Drahlín was a motte-type fortified residence on the southwestern edge of the village, seat of the lords of Drahlín from the 13th–15th centuries; written records of the castle itself do not survive. In 1324 Heřman of Drahlín and Liteň, ancestor of the lords of Valdek, held it. In 1413 Dobeš of Tmaň and Zdeněk of Podmokly bought the village, and by 1553 Drahlín belonged to the Hluboš estate, when the castle lost its manorial role and was abandoned.
The site is a vanished fortress, of which only a circular mound about five metres high survives, protected as a cultural monument. Its name Drahlín is also recorded as Hradiště, and the mound is ringed by a nine-metre-wide ditch with a three-metre rampart in front of it.
The site lies on the southwestern edge of Drahlín, north of Příbram in the Central Bohemian Region. What remains is a round motte about five metres high, ringed by a nine-metre-wide ditch and a three-metre-high outer bank; the earthworks are best seen in low vegetation, off the main village lane.
The castle survives only as a circular motte about five metres high, surrounded by a nine-metre-wide ditch and a three-metre-high outer bank. It is protected as a cultural monument.
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