Arnoltovice Ruin

The Arnoltovice is located in the northern part of the village Poličná, approximately 1.6 km west of the centre of Valachian Meziříčí, on the track called the Nemčíkov hill. The remains of the former chateau have been protected as a cultural monument since 3 May 1958. Both the chateau core and the adjacent front are located in private gardens and are not accessible to the public.

The chateau was built in connection with the colonization of the Upper Pobečvi, which was run by the Bishop of Olomouc. The oldest written mention dates back to 1307, when a certain George of the Arnold's marshal was Bishop John VI of Valdštejn and got involved in a dispute with the storyline earls. Written sources later mark the fortified manor with different terms - castro, municio or propulgaculum - and show that it served as the centre of the bishop's holiday farm. At the end of the fourteenth century it belonged to the town of Mezíříčí, as well as the village of Hrachovec, Křevé, Oznice, Poličná, Veselá and several now extinct settlements.

During the second half of the fourteenth century, the fists were held first by the lords of the Arnoltovic - Peter and Jeneč, of whom Jenech sold the fists in 1376 to Oldřich from Kortelangen. After Kortelangen, Arnoltovice switched to his brother Wilhelm. Around 1381, the chateau was seized by Bishop Jindřich of Bela, who sold it to the Olomouc Bishop of Riesenburg nine years later. This Bishop Arnoltovice made one of his main residences and published here the papers of 1394. Since 1396 they became Lacka from Kravař, after whose death in 1416 they were taken over by the masters of Bystřice, whom we also remind as brothers of Jindřich from Bystřice and Choryna, who in 1419 wrote here a godly foundation of eight kicks of grosses for three weekly mass in the parish church. Apparently, the chateau had its own chapel with a chaplain. After Jindřich's death in 1432 Heres of Bystrica took over, then his son. In the second half of the 15th century - from 1449 to 1463 in particular - it was owned by the Brňov family. The last known holder was Zich Rynda of Neznanice, who received the summer moon in 1463. In 1466, Zich Rynda is still remembered - since then, the chateau has no longer appeared in written sources.

Arnoltovice probably disappeared during the Czech-Hungarian wars and the respective villages became part of the Bishopric Len farm Mezíčí. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the stones of the ruins were supposed to be used in the construction of the superintendent's office building in Krásně nad Bečvou, which was later converted into Empire castle Kinský.

It is not detailed in the background about археоlogical findings, just a reference in spring 1964, when a metal seal with a gothic shield and warts belonging to Zavish from Bystřice from the early 15th century was found when building the cellar at the foot of the German hill. According to regional explorer Eduard Dokala, who wrote at the beginning of the twentieth century, "there was no memory left of Arnoltovice Chateau," and the local population no longer knew the original name.