Gold čtvrtuncová medal Hrad kunětická hora
weight: 7,78 g
purity: 999,9/1000 Au
edge plain
limited mintage quality proof: 250 pcs
issue day: February 2012
Objednávkový kód: CRM859
Kuntick hora - located about seven kilometers from the county town of Pardubice. At the peak at an altitude of 307 meters the same name Castle, which was built by the Hussite captain Divis Borek of Miletnek around 1,422th
The site was strategically is conveniently located and provided an excellent view of the surroundings. Among the later owners of the castle was also King George of Podbrad. A major redevelopment in the late Gothic style contributed Perntejnov who bought the building in 1491. It was built castle complex with two towers and a fortress, equipped with artillery bastions. Already in 1560, the castle after indebted Jaroslav of Perntejna took the royal chamber. During the Thirty Years War, the castle, which prevented the few large crew, fired army of Swedish general Torstenson (1645). The devastation also contributed to the ever expanding quarry. The commemoration began at the end of the First World War care Museum Association in Pardubice, which then followed Kuntick team. It entered the architects Dusan Jurkovic and Jan PACL up a proposal for reconstruction. Work under this plan, but were stopped in 1928 and replaced with a different concept. Significant changes and stabilize the preserved object was only after World War II. Kuntick castle is now a major tourist site.