Tachov

Tachov lies on the Mže in the wooded hills of western Bohemia. King Ottokar II built a castle with a massive round tower here in the thirteenth century and founded a walled town beside it. The town was besieged and captured several times during the Hussite Wars; in 1427 Prokop the Great defeated a crusading army near Tachov. The Thirty Years' War brought severe damage to the town and its surroundings. In 1664 Count Johann Anton Losy acquired Tachov, and his family began converting the medieval castle into a large Baroque residence. The estate passed to the Windisch-Graetz family in 1784, who rebuilt the house again in Neoclassical style.