Milštejn Castle Ruins

Very nice place to go on trips without tourists. You can probably spend the night here in the summer.

If you ever move to the Neo-Borough, a few kilometers away is the Svor village at the foot of the Key. We made our way down the road to Cvikov, turned to the chapel and crossed the field and forest under Rousínov, where they turned right and through the forest they reached the crossroads connected to the tourist and transport, and then after a couple of toupons and about a mile walk they reached Milštejn We crawled over the ruins, looked at the Trempa settlement, and after touring we got to Rousínov, got a coffee and a beer in the Milštejn guesthouse and returned to the Svor forest through the geese. It was a pleasant walk for how ugly it was

Nice ruins of Milštejn castle above the town of Cvikov. Unfortunately, the road along the yellow tourist sign is damaged by forest machines, so one has to skip the often deeper tracks.

Nice, but there are nicer places around. :)

The road to the ruins is crazy from the forest technology. There are only remnants of the castle walls, but what is beautiful are the adjacent rocks with a "rock gate", which allows a view of the ruins from another side. On the way to Cvikov, the Naděj dam is interesting.

MILŠTEJN In the books of the Prague Archbishopric from 1362-1379, Jindřich Berka of Dubá, Milštejn, is named the owner of the estate. In Milštejn there was a crew of 12-16 gunmen who accompanied the merchant cars on the way from Zittau to Prague and also collected customs and tolls here. Nevertheless, the castle was conquered by the Lusatian army in 1456, however, in the 15th century the castle experienced a period of its greatest prosperity. Quartz sandstone has been mined in the vicinity of the castle for the production of millstones since the Middle Ages, and after leaving the castle, interest shifted to the subsoil of the castle itself. Mining reached a larger scale in the years 1665-1689, at that time the large castle tower was partially demolished so that the falling masonry did not endanger the breakers. The second smaller tower collapsed in 1726 and the final demise of the large tower came in 1793. Another increase in mining came with the expansion of industry after 1873. At that time, there were already 100 workers. The stone was broken by hand with iron wedges and roughly worked directly in the quarry, then it was only transported to the factory in nearby Hope, where it received its final treatment. Every year, 600 stones were produced here, which traveled to Russia, Germany, Scandinavia and elsewhere, for example. Mining ended in 1910 when the raw material ran out.