Rabštejnek

Rabštejnek originated in the first half of the Fourteenth century as a modest noble residence and is indirectly documented as of the year 1390. A number of less significant owners succeeded each other there, including Jan of Orle, the Holecký and Ostružna families, and later Václav of Vlkov or Zikmund Šárovec, before the town of Chrudim bought it in 1540. After the Estates' Uprising, Jan of Pernštejn acquired it in 1547 and quickly sold it on; then in 1575, Václav Fráněk pledged the castle to Bohuslav Mazanec. Already around 1585, it was described as abandoned, and in the Nineteenth century, Prince František Josef of Auersperg romantically modified it, adding Neo-Romanesque windows and a gabled roof. The two-room layout with a prismatic tower in its core has been protected as a cultural monument since 1964, and since 2014, private owners have been caring for the ruin, having saved it from decay.