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| The construction of the city and the castle began in the late thirteenth century as an important ford of the river Vltava trade routes. In 1302 both the city and the castle came under the control of the House of Rosenberg. Much of the architecture of the old town and the adjacent part of the castle dating from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth century, the buildings are Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque. The core of the old town is within the horseshoe bend of the river, with the castle across the Vltava. The Emperor Rudolph II bought Krumau in 1602 and gave it to his son Julius of Austria and later Emperor Ferdinand II gave it to the House of Eggenberg. From 1719 to 1945 the castle was owned by the House of Schwarzenberg. In 1806 the city became part of the Austrian Empire in 1866 and Austro-Hungarian Empire. 8662 inhabitants lived in Krumau in der Moldau in 1910, including 7,367 Germans and 1,295 Czechs. After the First World War, Krumau from October 1918 to September 1919 belonged to Upper Austria, Austria Region of the newly-born German, but in 1918 the Czechs occupied the city. During the period of interguerra was part of Czechoslovakia. Between 1938 and 1945 was annexed to Nazi Germany as part of the Sudetenland. The German-speaking population of the town was expelled after the end of World War II and Cesky Krumlov was returned to Czechoslovakia. During the Communist regime of Czechoslovakia, Krumlov fell into a state of abandonment, but the revolution Velvet in 1989 was restored to its former beauty of the city and is now a major holiday destinations in the Czech Republic, which attracts tourists mostly from Germany, Austria and the surrounding area. In August in 2002 the city suffered damage from flooding of the Vltava River. The old town is UNESCO World Heritage Site. | |
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