Tyrov castle

One of the most important castles in the Czech Kingdom in the form of a cutout. This large paper model is one of the cutouts with a scale of 1: 200.

 

The cut-out workbook contains a total of 30 B4 sheets. The 20 sheets contain individual parts, and the remaining 10 sheets contain textual and pictorial instructions for the construction of the cut-out and additional texts and photographs of the model.

Týřov, formerly called Angerbach, is one of our most remarkable castles. It lies west of Prague in the Beroun region, about 2 km from Skryjí, near the more famous castle Křivoklát. Its ruins lie on a steep promontory above the Úpořský brook.

 

The oldest mention of the castle is from 1249, when King Wenceslas I received his Queen Přemysl and the leaders of the lord opposition. The context shows that the castle had to be completed at that time, or at least almost finished. Týřov was in the possession of the Czech kings until 1307, when it was occupied by Mr. Vilém Zajíc of Valdek. From 1309, Týřov was pledged by Mr. Oldřich Pluh from Rabštejn. The importance and strength of the castle is evidenced by the fact that Jindřich of Lipá, the leader of the Czech lords who led the "domestic war" against King Jan of Luxembourg, was imprisoned here in 1315-16. In 1333, Týřov was bought from the pledge by the future Czech King Charles IV. and in 1360 he pledged it for the last time and only for one year. In his Majestas Karolina code, we find Týřov among the castles that are conditionally alienable. Týřov was then in royal possession until 1422. From the beginning of the 15th century. the castle is gradually built by Aleš Holický of Šternberk, Habart of Adlar again to the Šternberks, and in 1450 it was bought back by the royal chamber. George of Poděbrady gave the castle to his royal secretary Jošt of Einsidle in 1460, during which the last significant reconstruction of the castle took place. In 1575, Týřov is listed as a desolate chateau and by joining Křivoklát it definitely loses its significance. In the years 1973 and 1976-84, an extensive archaeological survey was carried out here, thanks to which we know it in relatively great detail. Today it is again a romantic ruin with a beautiful view of the Berounka valley and the places where Joachim Barrande already collected his trilobites.

 

And what is so remarkable about him? This is the best preserved example of the so-called French castle in our country. Other buildings of this type were, for example, Konopiště, Džbán or Nižbor. This type of castle is foreign in our regions and its defensive qualities are significantly ahead of their time. It is a multi-tower castle of mostly regular shape. The towers, usually round, were pushed in front of the line of the walls and thus made it possible to shoot the strip of walls between the two towers with crossfire from both the walls and both towers - the so-called flanking.