New Šaumburk

New Šaumburk originated in the 14th century as a successor to the older Šaumburk Castle and is first mentioned in documents from 1360. At the beginning of the 15th century, due to debts, Olomouc Bishop Jan the Eleventh Mráz pledged it to the Lords of Bítov, who held the castle from 1416. One of them, a certain Mikuláš, made the castle a base for plundering expeditions into the surroundings, which eventually prompted the Moravian Provincial Hetman Jan Tovačovský of Cimburk to buy the castle in 1451 and have it torn down. It was later apparently partially restored, but definitively ceased to exist during the Bohemian-Hungarian Wars, when Hungarian troops destroyed it. Since 1973, it has been protected as a cultural monument, and gradual conservation works are underway, which are expected to last for many more years. A green tourist trail leads to the ruins from Podhradní Lhota, from where it is only half a kilometer away, and the path is well connected to nearby train stops.