Golden Trail over the Land of Castles
The "Golden Trail over the Land of Castles" with a total length of 89 km from Budyně nad Ohří to Úštěk connects most of the important castle monuments in the area of the Central Bohemian Uplands.
The Central Bohemian Uplands are surely a region with a unique atmosphere of beautiful nature, high basalt mounds and - above all - the land of castle ruins that crown these magnificant peaks. And those wonderful views of the region… you will love them! You will not see anything similar in the Czech lands. Moreover, few people realize that the Central Bohemian Uplands is the place where the oldest Czech legends take place and that it is also the only region where the invincible Czech military leader Jan Žižka from Trocnov imprinted his strategic genius on his own castle - Kalich.
Stops
Třebívlice
The first mention of the village of Třebívlice dates back to 1318, when Mikuláš of Třebívlice is mentioned. In the 14th century, we know several local lords and knights in connection with Třebívlice. We do not know where exactly they were; at the beginning of the 15th century, however, it is documented that there were two courtyards and two fortresses in Třebívlice - the upper and lower.
At that time, the village was divided for a long time and the owners of the individual parts probably changed quickly. The most historically important figure among them was Zikmund Řepanský of Hrádek (? - † before 1434), a radical Hussite and an important Tábor ideologue, who later moved to the extreme position of picarty; he held part of Třebívlice sometime after 1408. In 1470, the holder of the lower fortress was Evan of Údrče, whose heirs bought the upper fortress in 1560. In 1586, the sons of Vojtěch of Údrče divided the inheritance and since then Třebívlice has been divided into Horní and Dolní. The era of the Klebelsbergs, who rebuilt the lower fortress into a chateau in the 1880s, is remarkable in the history of Třebívlice. To the Klebersber family also belongs (the stepdaughter of František Klebelsberg) the well-known Ulrik von Levetzow (1804 - 1895), the last great love of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Ulrika is buried in the local cemetery.
Třebívlický chateau is a simple classicist building built on the site of an older chateau demolished in 1837; today it houses a school and a pavilion with a museum of Ulrika von Levetzow in the park. Other important monuments are the church of St. Wenceslas rebuilt at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, a baroque chapel from 1731 and a baroque rectory from 1787. Now, a wine-growing tradition is being purposefully built in the village.