[1] The castle was built in the middle of the 13th century by the Swabian Wehingen family, or rather their offshoot, which was founded by the knight Siegfried Sirotek.

[2] After the extinction of the Wehingen family, the castle came into the possession of King Wenceslas III in 1305, who was murdered a year later.

It is situated in the Tabulová National Nature Reserve within the Pálava Protected Landscape Area.

Shortly afterwards, a commander arrived at the castle, whom Čičos's wife Růžena asked to go to the newborn child as a godfather.

When he returned to the castle years later, he found the only person there – an old man who had once escaped the Commander's wrath.

When the old man told him what had happened to his parents at the time, Orphanus went insane and had to ride horses at night from Turold Castle.