Seeberg
Castle
The
castle is situated in the town of Ostroh, located 5 km away from Františkovy
Lázně.The
collections currently exhibited represent the development of interior and
furniture design in the 19th century (the French Imperial Style, Biedermeier,
the Second Rococo, the Neo-Renaissance, the Neo-Gothic, Chippendale), the black
kitchen, baroque and rococo inlaid furniture, the rural areas of Cheb in the
19th century (ethnography), and also the history of porcelain and the
contemporary production of Karlovarský porcelán a.s.
Volcano "Komorní
hůrka"
Near Františkovy Lázně
(3 km) you
may be interested in seeing the youngest extinct volcano in middle Europe. It
was still active as recently as 850,000 years ago. There was
an argument dating back to the beginning of, involving J. W. Goethe, in honour
of which a tunnel was made in the hillside by Count Šternberk’s mining expert
Kašpar which serves as a monument. A plaque was placed in the tunnel for Count
Šternberk, as well as a head relief of the famous
poet.
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National Nature Reservation SOOS
The
wooden platform way is equipped with information boards which provide
information on local geology, flora and fauna. This pathway leads along the most
interesting places round the little peat lakes, springs of mineral waters and to
the moffettes. You can also visit the new pavilion with the exhibition “History
of the Earth“.
The Butterfly
House
The Butterfly House is located in Žirovice
2 km from
Františkovy Lázně. Here you can see not only an extensive
butterfly collection but also free-flitting
butterflies.
The Town of Cheb
The Town of
Cheb can pride
itself upon its rich history dating back as early as the 9th century. The bloody incident of the assassination
of the political and military adventurer Duke Albrecht of Wallenstein
permanently entered history. A possibility, to set their own eyes on the room in
which Albrecht of Wallenstein was assassinated on 25th February 1624, attracts
thousands of visitors to the Cheb Museum. Cheb is a birthplace of a
significant architect Balthasar Neumann. Baroque buildings both of
ecclesiastical and profane character illustrate the activity of such important
architects as Christopher Dientzenhofer, A. Leutner, G.B. Alliprandi, P. Bayer
and A. Pfeffer.
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The Cheb Castle
The
castle was built in the second half of the 12th Century at the place
of a former Slavic settlement from the 9-11th Centuries. In the
second half of the 15th Century, a farm building was built adjacent
to the imperial castle. The Black Tower and a part of the east wall remained
from the original Roman fortification. The best preserved and most valuable
building of the imperial castle is the castle chapel of St Erhard and
Urshula.
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The Wildstone
Castle
One of the oldest Romanesque castles in Bohemia was open for
the public for the very first time as late as in 2001.The museum and gallery of
the castle is accessible without entrance fee. Inside the castle you may also
find a restaurant in historical Gothic style, which offers a knightly
menu
