Sloup (ruin)

You will not find art collections on Sloup
At Sloup Rock Castle you will find a large number of corridors and rock spaces for common use or church significance. Spaces and corridors have been carved inside the rock or completed on the surface and are interconnected. All spaces are empty, collections of art objects or objects of daily use will not affect you here. The black kitchen, prison, chapel, Knight's Stairs and hermitage rooms are not equipped. Impressive is just empty - you can fully enjoy the reality of the time, not embellished by later equipment. The subsequent Baroque adaptation strengthened the romantic impression. After the tour, you can stay for one of the concerts by candlelight.

The ruins of Sloup have been inhabited since prehistoric times
Even people of prehistoric cultures considered the sandstone rock to be a convenient inaccessible place. The rock castle was built in the 13th century and was to guard the trade route. The castle was abandoned in the 16th century, the owner preferred comfort and had a house built in the castle grounds. In the 17th century, the Swedes burned the castle's wooden buildings and the owner decided to rebuild the castle into a hermitage. This created a chapel, terraces, a church tower and other smaller buildings. In the 19th century, the hermitage became a place for excursions that you can comfortably visit.

The pillar is guarded by a hermit with binoculars
After the Thirty Years' War, the castle was rebuilt into a pilgrimage church, which housed the hermit order of the Trinitarians. During their work, the rock castle Sloup was also a famous place of pilgrimage. After the imperial reforms, which banned hermitage, the castle served tourists, and only the statue of a hermit, which stands on the roof of a building on the Sloup rock and observes the landscape with binoculars, commemorates the time of the hermits.

Author: Helena Syslová