Bouzov Castle

In the course of centuries there were several changes of proprietors; the castle was owned by the lords of Vildenberk, Margrave Jobst of Moravia, the Haugwitz and the Podstatzky families, and in 1696 the barony was bought by the grand master of the Teutonic Order, the Rhenish Pfalzgraf Francis Louis of Palatinate-Neuburg.

In 1499 the Haugwitz family started the construction of a palace on the eastern side and connected the northern and southern dwelling building.

In the first half of the 15th century it was converted into a Hussite stronghold, serving as a prison for captured Swedes during the Thirty Years' War.

Only the building in the outer settlement remained inhabited, and by the end of the 19th century the ruin of the castle became a tourist goal.

Bouzov was fitted with modern furnishings and equipment, including running water and central heating.

The order was abolished in 1939 and the castle was confiscated by the fascists, occupied and looted by the Nazis during World War II.

[3] The castle was acquired by the Chief of the Gestapo R. Himmler, who forced the Strahov Monastery to sell it to him for one million crowns, as a present to A.

The buildings are grouped around it in the form of a horseshoe, and the castle is enhanced by a number of towers, and among other things, bastions, battlements, oriel windows and loopholes.