Chřibský hrádek, also Karlštejn (German Unterer Karlstein or Wüstes Schloss) is a ruined rock castle near Chřibská

Chribská

Chřibská is a town in the Okres Děčín in Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has ca. 1407 inhabitants .-History:The place was first mentioned in 1383 as located at the trading road from Bohemia to the Lausitz. It became part of the possessions of the family of Wartenberg from Děčín,...

 (Kreibitz) in the Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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Location and area

Chřibský hrádek Castle is located on a rock outcrop in the valley of the Doubický potok (Daubitzbach) not far from the isolated gamekeeper's house of Hájovna Saula (also U Sloupu) that, today, houses an information office for the Bohemian Switzerland National Park. To the north is the small municipality of Doubice

Doubice

Doubice is a village and municipality in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 106 ....

(Daubitz), to the east the town of Chřibská.

Sources

• Rudolf Anděl (Hrsg.): Hrady, zámky a tvrze v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Bd. III : Severní Čechy. Svoboda, Praha, 1984
• Richard Klos: Die sechs Felsenburgen in der Böhmischen Schweiz. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter Heft 3/1968, S. 97-103

External links

• Description of Chřibský hrádek
• Old description of Karlstein
• Chřibský hrádek at hrady.cz