Velhartice Castle

Plzeňský kraj · Tschechien · Castle

At Velhartice a dead soldier is said to have been raised from his grave by black magic – and in the famous ballad, King Charles IV still drinks wine with his dead friend Bušek.

Velhartice Castle on the edge of the Bohemian Forest was home to Bušek of Velhartice, trusted chamberlain of Emperor Charles IV – immortalised in Jan Neruda's ballad, in which the king's spirit drains a goblet at night with his dead friend in the castle hall. The local legend is darker: a rejected suitor is said to have used black magic to raise a fallen soldier from his churchyard grave to terrify the girl he could not win. During the Thirty Years' War the castle also belonged to the notorious, cruel colonel Martin de Hoeff-Huerta, whose reputation spawned ghost stories of its own. Among the Gothic walls and the massive stone bridge, shadows are still said to move at night.

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Velhartice Castle liegt in Plzeňský kraj, Tschechien.