Recent excavations at the castle revealed a trove of artifacts, including a 400-year-old helmet believed to have belonged to a Habsburg mercenary who fought in the Fifteen Years’ War.

In 1271, Czech king Přemysl Otakar II took the castle, and in 1287 came Austrian Duke Albert I of Habsburg. It was last conquered in 1385, after an invasion by the army of the Moravian margraves ...