Svojanov - August 2006

(Svitavy Region) Premysl Otakar II established the castle around 1265 to support royalty during his journey from Litomysl to Brno. King Charls IV included it among castles that should not be separated from the royal crown not mortgaged off. In the 13th century, the castle belonged to the Queev Kunhuta, who pawned it to Zavis of Falkenstejn. The castle was not lived in from the 17 century, and it was employed as a factory for the manufacture of graphite that was mined nearby in the mid 1800s.