A legend explains the German name Hassenstein through a lord who went to war, leaving his daughter under the chaplain’s care. In time she married an adventurous knight. When her father returned, he killed the chaplain who had married them, had his daughter walled up alive and rode his horse off a rock into the abyss beneath the castle where its walls were lowest.
Location and map
- Place
- Hasištejn - Hrad
- Municipality / starting point
- Hasištejn
- District / region
- Chomutov
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 11 km W of Chomutova
A legend explains the German name Hassenstein through a lord who went to war, leaving his daughter under the chaplain’s care. In time she married an adventurous knight. When her father returned, he killed the chaplain who had married them, had his daughter walled up alive and rode his horse off a rock into the abyss beneath the castle where its walls were lowest.
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 110
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.