Karlštejn Castle (Hrad Karlštejn) walk 4k HDR - Short trip from Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿ASMR

In this video, we will make a short trip from Prague to Karlštejn Castle, walk along the old streets and climb to the famous Castle of the Czech Republic.

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Karlštejn Castle (Czech: Hrad Karlštejn; German: Burg Karlstein) is a large Gothic castle founded in 1348 by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor-elect and King of Bohemia. The Castle served as a place for safekeeping the Imperial Regalia and the Bohemian Crown Jewels, holy relics, and other royal treasures.
It is located about 30 kilometers (19 mi) southwest of Prague in the Beroun District of the Central Bohemian Region, above the market town of the same name.
Karlštejn is one of the most famous and frequently visited castles in the Czech Republic. As of 2019, it was the 5th most visited Castle with more than 200,000 visitors per year.
The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire was kept in the Castle until 1421
Founded in 1348, the construction works were directed by the later Karlštejn burgrave Vitus of Bítov, but the builder himself has no records. Some historians speculate that Matthias of Arras may be credited with being the architect, but he had already died by 1352. Likely, there was not a progressive and cunning architect but a brilliant civil engineer who dexterously and with a necessary mathematical accuracy solved technically tricky problems issued from the emperor's ideas and requests. Instead, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV supervised the construction works and interior decoration. Construction was finished nearly twenty years later in 1365 when the "heart" of the treasury – the Chapel of the Holy Cross situated in the Great tower – was consecrated.
Following the outbreak of the Hussite Wars, the Imperial Regalia were evacuated in 1421 and brought via Hungary to Nuremberg. In 1422, during the siege of the Castle, Hussite attackers used biological warfare when Prince Sigismund Korybut used catapults to throw dead (but not plague-infected) bodies and 2,000 carriage-loads of dung over the walls,[2] apparently managing to spread the infection among the defenders.
Karlštejn around 1850 Later, the Bohemian crown jewels were moved back to the Castle and kept there for almost two centuries, with some short breaks. The Castle underwent several reconstructions: in late Gothic style after 1480, in Renaissance style in the last quarter of the 16th century. In 1487, the immense tower was damaged by fire, and during the 16th century, there were several adaptations. During the Thirty Years' War in 1619, the coronation jewels and the archive were brought to Prague, and in 1620, the Castle was turned over to Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. After having been conquered in 1648 by Swedes, it fell in disrepair. Finally, a neo-Gothic reconstruction was carried out by Josef Mocker between 1887 and 1899, giving the Castle its present look.
The nearby village was founded during the construction of the Castle and bore its name until it was renamed Buda in the wake of the Hussite Wars. Renamed to Budňany in the 18th century, it was merged with Poučník and called Karlštejn (Beroun District). There is a golf club named after the Castle nearby.
On a nearby hillside behind the Castle, a marker is erected and maintained by the Czech/Slovak mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The designation signifies the place (known as "Priest's Hill") where Apostle John A. Widstoe, local church members, and American missionaries organized and dedicated the land of former Czechoslovakia for proselytizing on the 24 of July 1929. The mission was closed during the communist era and was reopened and rededicated in the 1990s by Apostle Russell M. Nelson. Every year, on the 24 of July, all of the missionaries in the Czech Republic travel to the marker to celebrate the opening of the mission and pray before returning to their proselytizing.


Recorded in 4k 60fps HDR

Perception Philosophy
17 of January 2022
Czech Republic