Veduta of Oybin

The ruins of the castle of Oybin as one of the pictorial attachments to the document "Analecta Fastorum Zittaviensium" by the lawyer Benedikt Carpzov from 1716. The German castle of Oybin, whose ruins still stand on a sandstone rock near the village of the same name near the Czech border, was probably founded in the middle of the 13th century. Oybin became the seat of marauding knights for some time, but at the beginning of the 14th century it was rebuilt on the orders of the nobleman Henry of Lipá into a guard castle from which the nearby trade route could be controlled. In the middle of the 14th century, when Oybin was already permanently part of the Bohemian Crown, it was chosen as one of his residences by the King of Bohemia and the Roman Emperor Charles IV.