Potštejn


Potštejn is a municipality in Rychnov nad Kněžnou District, Hradec Králové Region, Czech Republic. It lies on both banks of the Divoká Orlice River.
The name of the municipality was derived from name of castle with the same name, which was called by its founder Půta of Drslavic: Puota's stone, Puttenstein, misspelled as Potštejn. From the end of the 19th century till 1924 the name Potštýn nad Orlicí was used.
One of the famous owners of the castle was the King Charles IV.
The castle Potštejn was famed in Alois Jirásek's novel Poklad.
The renewed Unity of the Brethren was founded in Potštejn in 1870.