The Seeberg Castle is situated in Ostroh, located 5 km from Františkovy Lázně. When established, Seeberg Castle served as one of the military bases forming the rear during German colonisation of the Cheb region. It is very likely that the original Romanesque castle stood here already in the late 12th century; however, the first written record dates back only to the year 1322. It was at this time that Ludwig of Bavaria mortgaged the castle and the entire Cheb region to John of Bohemia in return for a pledge of assistance in his aspiration for the imperial throne. The pledge remained unfulfilled and the castle fell under the property of the Czech Crown.
Fig.: Seeberg
The collections currently exhibited represent the development of interior and furniture design in the 19th century (the French Imperial Style, Biedermeier, the Second Rococo, the Neo-Renaissance, the Neo-Gothic, Chippendale), the black kitchen, baroque and rococo inlaid furniture, the rural areas of Cheb in the 19th century (ethnography), and also the history of porcelain.
Fig.: Interior
The exhibition “Goethe and his Loves” is a gallery of 26 paintings with the biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and portraits of all his loves. The exhibition “Goethe and the Cheb executioner Karel Huss” presents the executioner Karel Huss, a very intelligent collector, chronicler, writer and poet. He opened a museum in his torture room at the Cheb Castle and that was the first museum in the region of Cheb. In addition to his biography, you can visit the torture room and Huss at his executions.
Fig.: J. W. Goethe