Budeč Castle

Budeč is located on the Kovar cadastrum at an altitude of 260 to 280 metres on the island, which stretches from Brandýska to Zákolany near Zákolany in the district of Kladno. The fort has attracted attention and tradition for thousands of years - not only archaeologists, but also legends and written reports about the beginnings of the Czech state.

The top was settled in the oldest times. Archaeological findings show habitation as early as prehistoric, namely from the period of the brow culture of the Middle Bronze Age and later from the colonial culture of the late Bronze Age. The first stone fortification has already been built here in the period of Knoviz. When the Slavic era was taken over by the Budco Slavs, they built a new wall right on the remnants of the prehistoric fortification system, it is assumed that perhaps even in the 9th century under Prince Bořivy.

The key event in the history of the Buddha dates from 895 to 905, when Prince Spytihněv I. founded the Rotunda of St. Peter. This dedication to St. Paul was completed only in the 16th century. It is with this place that old legends of St. Václav link the tradition of staying here and learning the Psalms. The legend Crescent fide mentions that his father, blessed prince Vratislav, sent him to Castle Budeč to be raised by a certain priest named the Scholar. This anchoring in the sacramento legends gradually increased the tradition of Budèe as a centre of education, which he gained in later times and dramatically developed the chronicler Václav Hájek.

It is clear from the letter sources that in the 10th century Budeč was one of the main supporting points of the Přemyslovů. However, in the 12th century the situation changed radically - Budeč does not appear in the written reports or in the list of important castles and no managers are mentioned. This absence suggests that the local fort has lost its state-law significance. The settlement continued for several centuries, but the top gradually depopulated until only the remains of the valleys and churches with the cemetery remained.

At the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries, the aforementioned Rotunda of St. Peter was built on the acropolis. From the first half of the 10th century, a burial ground adjacent to this church, where archaeologists uncovered 56 graves. Some buried objects were found such as earrings, gombs or spurs.

In the 19th century, she inspired the reputation of Budchi as the alleged educational centre of teacher Karl Slavoj Amerling. In the 1940s, he founded an industrial school called Budeč on Prague's New Town, which was soon a failure due to a lack of resources. The Budèe tradition itself was reflected in the names of many of the teachers' associations at the time.

Since 1962, the area of the Běč castle has been declared a national cultural monument, in 1967 the rotunda and the castle were registered as a cultural monument. In 2011, the natural park around the District and Budèe was defined. Today the territory is marked by the tourist routes of the Czech Tourist Club and remains a place where you can literally walk for centuries.