The Bezděz Castle - Mini Model Royalty-Free Stock Image

This model is situated in Mariánské Lázně in Bohemia.All the exhibited models in the Boheminium Park are exact replicas of existing listed buildings in the Czech Republic. All the models are made to a scale of 1:25 - the models are 25 times smaller than the originals.Bezděz Castle (Czech:Hrad Bezděz) is a Gothic castle located some 20 km southeast of Česká Lípa, in the Liberec Region, Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic. Its construction began before 1264 by order ofPřemysl Otakar II. The royal castle of Bezděz was one of the most important Gothic castles in the Czech lands until its destruction in the Thirty Years War.Erected between 1260–1280 on the phonolite hill of Velký Bezděz, 604 m above sea level, it became the characteristic dominant feature of the local landscape and met the demands for an inaccessible as well as respectable royal castle. A year after Přemysl’s death, the castle Bezděz, which was still unfinished, became the place of imprisonment of Queen Kunhuta and her underage son Václav II, kept under lock and key in very spartan conditions by Wenceslass guardian Ota Braniborský, Margrave of Brandenburg, after the Battle on the Marchfeld.The boy, only 6 or 7 at the time, remained there alone when his mother escaped under a pretext and it is widely accepted that the place left its mark on him. As an adult, and ruling monarch, he returned to Bezděz to order the construction of a chapel, one of the best preserved areas of the castle today. The