Schloss Johannesberg, Jauernig und Umgebung

The city Jauernig (Czech Javorník) today with around 3,000 inhabitants owes its special meaning for one of its location on the border between Prussian and Austrian Silesia, between the German Empire and Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the other as her castle Johannesberg temporary seat of bishops of Breslau. The bishops have made it to a magnet for artists, writers and high-ranking personalities, for example, the composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, the poet and writer Joseph von Eichendorff and others. At castle Johannesberg spent bishop Philipp Gotthard Prince Schaffgotsch his exile in the conflict between Prussia and Habsburg to Silesia, here died the last German Bishop of Breslau, Cardinal Adolf Bertram. The cultural atmosphere in the castle reacted to the city and made it in the past to a European meeting place.