Sýpka - bývalá tvrz Granary

Hlumek is a former Renaissance fortress that was used as a granary in the 18th century after Baroque reconstruction. The building is located on the elevated terrace above the left bank of the river Ohře in the extinct village Chlumek, which was a settlement of the village Dasnice in the district of Sokolov in the Karlovy Vary region. Since 1963, this building has been protected as a cultural monument.

The fortress was built by Štolcové ze Simsdorfu in the 16th century, probably to replace the extinct Gothic residence of the Perglas family from Perglas. The exact location and appearance of the original structure are unknown. The stolls owned Hlumek until 1620, when the fortress was created under Jan Stolce.

The building form of the building is a corner rectangular brick building made of quarry stone with dimensions of approximately 11 × 21 meters. Its Renaissance origin is visible on the decorative element in the lining above the rear entrance, which bears the year 1570. Just above this element was later added their younger coat of arms under Nostic. In the middle of the 18th century, a Baroque rebuilding took place on the granary during which the original windows were replaced by rectangular holes and the interior was fundamentally changed: internal partitions were demolished and a wooden floor equipped with a staircase. The building has simple undivided facades with oblong windows, stone shambles and a valbé roof covered with burnt-out bags of the type of eska.

After the Battle of the White Mountain, Stolc property was prevented. In 1622 the farm was sold to Bartholomew Bräuner of Vildenava and was held by several different owners in the following centuries. In 1745 she purchased the property Hlumek and Shabina Veronika Dorota z Becku, which had the fort converted into a granary. In 1765, Hlumek was owned by Nosticové, who attached him to the Falknov estate. The object remained in their possession until 1945. After that year, the economic buildings were taken over by a local state farm that used the fort as a fertiliser warehouse.

Near the fortress was a Baroque castle, known as the Old Castle, to distinguish itself from the nearby New Castle built at the end of the 19th century. However, the new castle no longer exists, as it was demolished in May 1983. Hlumek himself went through a tragic fate in 1992 when the building burned down and only the perimeter walls remained from the building. After the fire, the construction was quickly repaired and remasked.

This monument is an interesting example of the transformation of the Renaissance residence into an economic building. It is an important witness to the history of the lost village of Hlumek and it is easier to understand the changes of the local estate.