Castle Hill is a distinctive solitary basalt hill with an altitude of 529.6 m near the town of \u010cesk\u00e1 Kamenice in the D\u011b\u010d\u00edn district. It is known mainly for the remains of Kamenick\u00fd Castle and the restored lookout tower on its summit. It is the highest peak of the \u010cesk\u00e1 Kamenice Uplands geomorphological subdistrict. The peak of the hill rises 200 meters above \u010cesk\u00e1 Kamenice. <\/p>\n
Between \u010cesk\u00e1 Kamenice and Kamenick\u00fd \u0160enov, there is a green marked K\u010cT trail for hikers, from which a branch to the summit is created. The closest connection by train and bus is from \u010cesk\u00e1 Kamenice. <\/p>\n
Castle <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It was probably founded in the 13th century, but its flourishing and completion were ensured by the lords of Vartenberk only before 1430 to protect the country path leading to Lusatia. The name was derived from the mountain river Kamenice full of boulders. 10-15 years later, the Lusatian towns organized a military expedition in retaliation for the Vartenberk’s robber expeditions to Lusatia and apparently burned the castle in the period 1440-1444. After several decades, in 1515, the lords of Salhausen bought the estate. Other records show that in 1535 Kamenice was again owned by the lords of Vartenberk, but it was no longer an inhabited castle. A skirmish took place in 1639 during the Thirty Years’ War and the Swedes burned and demolished it again. In 1880, members of the Beautification Society set about cleaning up the air raids and repairing the masonry. Then the castle palace building was converted into a tourist cottage, and a 16-meter-high observation tower with a nice view of \u010cesk\u00e1 Kamenice was built. In 1910, the society was able to open the knights’ hall. After 1940, the building, including the observation tower, began to fall into disrepair, 10 years later the restaurant disappeared, and the wooden tower was falling apart. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Restoration <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In 1995, thanks to the newly established foundation for the restoration of Z\u00e1meck\u00fd vrch in \u010cesk\u00e1 Kamenice, the restoration was successfully started. The castle palace and part of the stone walls were preserved from the castle. The ruins were cleaned again, the walls were reinforced, and in 1998 the construction of a new lookout tower was completed. The ceremonial reopening took place on June 13, 1998. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91498,"template":"","kategorie_zazitek":[],"kdy_navstivit":[381,379,380,382],"pro_koho":[361,362,360,364,363],"zazitek-stitek":[327,332],"zeme":[408],"class_list":["post-91497","zazitky","type-zazitky","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kdy_navstivit-autumn","kdy_navstivit-spring","kdy_navstivit-summer","kdy_navstivit-winter","pro_koho-couples","pro_koho-families","pro_koho-for-cyclists","pro_koho-groups","pro_koho-with-a-dog","zazitek-stitek-castles-and-manor-houses","zazitek-stitek-observation-towers-and-viewpoints","zeme-czech-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zazitky\/91497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zazitky"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/zazitky"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_zazitek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_zazitek?post=91497"},{"taxonomy":"kdy_navstivit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kdy_navstivit?post=91497"},{"taxonomy":"pro_koho","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pro_koho?post=91497"},{"taxonomy":"zazitek-stitek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zazitek-stitek?post=91497"},{"taxonomy":"zeme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceskesvycarsko.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zeme?post=91497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}