page_title: Hrubá Skála
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hrubá Skála / History
caption_attribution_description: Bild aus Seite 425 in "Die Gartenlaube". Image from page 425 of journal Die Gartenlaube, 1859. Deutsch: Bildunterschrift: „Der Marienfelsen auf Großskal bei Turnau in Böhmen.“ English: caption: "Der Marienfelsen auf Großskal bei Turnau in Böhmen."
context_page_description: Hrubá Skála is a village and municipality in Semily District of the Liberec Region in the Czech Republic.
context_section_description: Hrubá Skála Castle situated on a steep sandstone cliff on a rock platform 8 km from Turnov, was originally called Skály (Rocks) and was  first mentioned in a 1353 deed. It then a possession of the noble Hynek of the House of Waldstein (Valdštejn), ancestors of Albrecht von Wallenstein. The manor was called Hrubá Skála to differ it from nearby Malá Skála. His descendants owned the castle until 1416 when it was taken over by the lords of Jenstein and then, in 1460, by Zajíc of Hasenburgs.
  Held by the Lords of Smiřice from 1515 onwards, the rebuilt Renaissance castle had become the centre of one of the largest Bohemian estates with more than 50 villages. Seized by Emperor Ferdinand II upon the 1620 Battle of White Mountain, it was again held by the Waldstein dynasty from 1630 and devastated by both Saxon and Imperial troops during the Thirty Years' War. It was rebuilt in 1710 and again in 1804.
  In 1821, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein sold Hrubá Skála to Johann Anton Lexa von Aehrenthal. In 1859,  Skála  castle was again rebuilt in the style of a Renaissance chateau.
  After World War II the Aerenthal family was dispossessed in 1945 and the German-speaking population expelled according to the Beneš decrees. Under Communist rule, the castle served as a recreation home. For some years now, the property has been operated as a hotel and spa.
caption: Depiction in Die Gartenlaube (1859)
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