Zamek Czocha, Poland
Channel: Patrick Beckers
Date: 2023-03-04

The castle of Czocha was built around 1250 to guard the border of the diocese of Meißen and the Bohemian crown.. First as a wooden version and from around 1350 as a stone castle. In the following centuries, several minor modifications and extensions followed and a Swedish attack in the 30-Year War was successfully fended off. In 1793, however, the castle suffered a major fire that destroyed large parts of it. In 1909, cigar manufacturer Ernst Gütschow (1869-1946) from Dresden bought the by then repaired castle and had it reconstructed in the Neo-Renaissance style between 1909 and 1920. In 1945, he was forced to leave the castle and it was subsequently looted. After extensive renovation work, the castle has been used as a hotel and conference centre since 1996.

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