Tourist-Information
Hauptstraße 15
02797 Kurort Oybin

Phone.:
++49 35844 73311
Fax:
++49 35844 73323

Placed on top of the Oybin Mountain, the most famous mountain of the Zittau Mountains, you will recognize the romantic ruins of the Bohemian castle and monastery. The rock’s shape has a strong resemblance to a beehive.

In the beginning the castle was just a simple defenses system before it was extended to a powerful defense fortification in the 14-century. In the mid-18th century the German Emperor Karl IV let built a castle and sponsored a monastery to the Coelestiner Order. The monastery contains a church, which was designed by the famous architect Peter Parler. He became famous for the construction of the Cathedral in Prag, the capital of Czech Republic.

Due to reformations that occurred in the mid-16th century, the monastic community could not survive.

During the following century the buildings suffered destruction by the elements. Fortunately, painter of the Romantic movement, Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Gustav Carus for instance, rediscovered the glories scenery of the ruins in the 18th and 19th century. Thus, the castle became famous again.

Since those days, the castle has been remodeled with tremendous effort. Although it is absolutely worth to save this beautiful ensemble of architecture and nature, it is a challenge against the time.

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