A simple version of the Karlštejn castle cutout. The model is suitable for moderately advanced modelers who do not dare to assemble a full-fledged detailed model of the castle.
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Karlštejn is a medieval royal castle, located in the cadastral area of Budňany in the town of Karlštejn of the same name in the district of Beroun, about thirteen kilometers east of Beroun and thirty kilometers southwest of the center of Prague. It lies in the middle of the protected landscape area of the Bohemian Karst. The castle is owned by the Czech Republic and is managed by the National Monuments Institute. It has been open to the public continuously since 1905, making it one of the longest-accessible monuments in the Czech Republic. Since March 30, 1962, it has been listed as a national cultural monument, whose annual number of visitors since the early 1960s has not fallen below 200,000 visitors a year. Karlštejn has long been one of the ten most visited monuments in the Czech Republic - it is the second most popular castle in the Czech Republic, and within the monuments managed by the National Monuments Institute has long held the position of the fourth most visited monument.
Karlštejn Castle was founded around 1348 as a private representative seat of the Roman emperor and Czech king Charles IV. After Charles' imperial coronation in Rome in 1355, the emperor changed the purpose of the castle. He decided to use it as a jewel box - a space for storing the imperial coronation jewels and a set of holy relics. The Czech coronation jewels, previously stored in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, first found themselves in Karlštejn in the early 1920s by order of King Sigismund, who had both sets of royal insignia exported from the Czech Kingdom out of fear of Hussite storms. After the end of the Hussite wars, only Czech royal jewels were returned to Karlštejn for safekeeping in 1436 and remained there with short breaks until 1619.
