ostrava + trest + rostejn + telc, CZ

we have spent our time in CZ (czech republic) almost completely in the eastern part called morava (moravia, mähren).

• lunch break in a former baroque storage (barokni spejchar, barocker speicher) from 1646, today a guesthouse + restaurant in western czech republic in tlucna (close to plzen / pilsen) on our way to the beautiful sulislaw (zülzhof) castle in poland
• city of ostrava in upper silesia (also known as ostrau or till 1941 mährisch ostrau)
• castle trest (triesch) => franz kafka + josef alois schumpeter + phantasic swimming in flooded old stone quarry (steinbruch, kamenolom) in cenkov
• castle rostejn / rostyn / rosenstein (built 1339 for the brothers Meinhard + Ulrich IV. von Neuhaus)
• unesco heritage city of telc (teltsch)

the unesco heritage city of telc (teltsch), CZ

castle trest (schloss triesch) => alois schumpeter, franz kafka, ... 

sweet water fishery + wine region southern moravia, CZ

on the road ...

tlucna (close to pilsen/plzen), west CZ

former baroque storage (barokni spejchar, barocker speicher) from 1646

let's present my no. 1 non-alcoholic beer, the bernard svestka aka bernard plum beer 🍺

the industrial silesia ... ostrava - vitkovice ...

there is a small story to tell: paul kuppelwieser, the austrian manager in rockefeller's steel works in vitkovice (ostrava) was the one who retired at age of 52 and in about 1860 bouhgt the then austrian and today croatian brioni (brijun) islands in istria (malaria => german physician robert koch => no malaria => yugoslavia's president tito, ZOO, cadillac, arts, female artists, ...)

the so ugly new town hall in ostrava (ostrau)

ostrava (ostrau)

the old town house in ostrava (ostrau)

is this the polish consulate in ostrava at the odra (oder) river? who knows?

good-bye, ostrava

trest castle (schloss triesch), CZ

phantasic swimming in flooded old stone quarry (steinbruch, kamenolom) in cenkov

back to our castle triesch (trest)

let's mention few peole connected to / born in triesch:

the jewish german novelist franz kafka

the 'austrian' economist josef alois schumpeter was a german ('sudetendeutscher'), if you 

asked me, wasn't he? ok, he was also an austrian treasury secretary and american professor

der zustand des geldwesens eines volkes ist die summe aller seiner zustände

still in trest

rostejn / rosenstein castle as seen by lubos sobotka (maybe at @google maps?)

rostejn / rosenstein castle as seen by marie svobodova (maybe at @google maps?)

rostejn / rosenstein castle as seen by me

good-bye, castle rosenstein / rostyn

hello the unesco heritage city of teltsch / telc

the police station in telc

is this the austrian emperor sissi? who knows?

the telc castle

good-bye telc / teltsch

even more pictures here.

our last trip via CZ in august 2023 with 4 nights in 2 different castles here.