Krško Castle (, ) is a 12th-century

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ruin to the right of the

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above the old center of the town of

Krško Krško (; ) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the City Municipality of Krško. The town lies on the Sava River and on the northwest edge of the Krško Plain (), which is part of the larger Krka Flat (). The area is divided between t ...

, southeastern

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. It stands in the territory of the settlement of Cesta. The castle and town are both named after the nearby Krka River.

History

Krško (together with Brestanica) was first mentioned in 895, when the

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gave it to a loyal retainer, Valtun. It is not known whether the castle existed at that time, but it is assumed that it was erected shortly after 1100 by the noble house of Bogen, whose ministeriales were recorded as holding it as of 1154. The Counts Bogen may have obtained the lordship by marriage of Bertold II of Bogen to Seuhard, sister of Count Popo of Carniola. In 1189, the castle was mentioned as ''Castrum Gurkeuelt'', under the Bogen ministeriale Ortolf. In that year Adalbert of Bogen pawned it to

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, a relative of his wife, for 800 Freising marks. A term of two years was set for the Bogens to redeem it; the money may have gone toward their participation in the

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. The castle was still intact as of the late 17th century, when it was depicted in Valvasor's 1689 ''

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''.

References

Sources

* Ivan Jakič, Vsi slovenski gradovi, DZS,

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, 1997. * Ivan Lapajne, Krško in Krčani (reprint of 1894 issue), Zavod Neviodunum Krško, Krško, 2004. *

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor or Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor (, ) or simply Valvasor (baptised on 28 May 1641 – September or October 1693) was a natural historian and polymath from Carniola, present-day Slovenia, and a Li ...

, Slava vojvodine Kranjske, Mladinska knjiga,

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, 1978, Kultura imprint.

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