Chřibský hrádek

Chřibský hrádek
Karlštejn, Unterer Karlstein, Wüstes Schloss
Chřibská
room carved out of the rock
Shown within Czech Republic
Coordinates	50°52′25″N 14°27′06″E / 50.8736°N 14.4516°E / 50.8736; 14.4516Coordinates: 50°52′25″N 14°27′06″E / 50.8736°N 14.4516°E / 50.8736; 14.4516
Location code	CZ-US
Built	unknown
Height	400 m n.m.
Current condition	castle site with a few ruins

Chřibský hrádek, also Karlštejn (German Unterer Karlstein or Wüstes Schloss) is a ruined rock castle near Chřibská (Kreibitz) in the Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic.

Location and area

Chřibský hrádek Castle is located on a rock outcrop in the valley of the Doubický potok (Daubitzbach) not far from the isolated gamekeeper's house of Hájovna Saula (also U Sloupu) that, today, houses an information office for the Bohemian Switzerland National Park. To the north is the small municipality of Doubice (Daubitz), to the east the town of Chřibská.

See also

• List of castles in the Czech Republic

Sources

• Rudolf Anděl (Hrsg.): Hrady, zámky a tvrze v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Bd. III : Severní Čechy. Svoboda, Praha, 1984
• Richard Klos: Die sechs Felsenburgen in der Böhmischen Schweiz. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter Heft 3/1968, S. 97-103

External links

• Description of Chřibský hrádek
• Old description of Karlstein
• Chřibský hrádek at hrady.cz (Czech)