Jezeří Castle

The state-owned Jezeří Castle (German: Schloss Eisenberg) lies within the municipal area of Horní Jiřetín (Obergeorgenthal) in the Ústí nad Labem Region on the southern, steeply falling flank of the Ore Mountains in the Czech Republic. It is protected by the state as a cultural monument. In the summer half-year guided tours are offered to visitors.

Directly below the castle, in the North Bohemian Basin, lies the active large lignite opencast mine Důl ČSA. The village of the same name, Jezeří (Eisenberg), was destroyed as a result of the expansion of the opencast mine in the 1980s.

Machine-translated from “Schloss Jezeří” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jezeří Castle ranks #4,222 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #117 of the 203 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded c. 1400, it is older than 53% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 604 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,475 times in the last 60 days, more than 72% of the atlas. Wikidata records about 17,000 visitors in 2022. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Chomutov, 12 km away. It is one of the 159 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Bohemia. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.

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