The ruins of the Romanesque castle Přimda (German castle Pfraumberg) is located on the high, highly visible mountain Přimda (848 m above sea level) northwest of the small town of the same name in western Bohemia near the border with Bavaria. Built in the twenties of the twelfth century, the residential tower, together with the Prague Castle, is one of the oldest stone castles in Bohemia.
After the castle had served in the 12th and 13th centuries as a royal border fortification and several times as a prison for members of the ruling house and other high-ranking persons, changed in the 14th to 16th centuries, the Roman-German emperor and important Bohemian aristocratic families several times in their possession from. Since the end of the 16th century, it was no longer inhabited and so abandoned to decay. Since 1675 the property has been owned by the Novohradsky-Kolowrat family - with interruptions following the expropriation of the family by the National Socialists after the occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and in the era of existing socialism. In the middle of the 19th century, the picturesque castle ruins were "rediscovered" and since then extensively renovated and restored. In addition, construction investigations and several small excavation campaigns in the castle area were carried out, by whose results the time of origin of some castle parts and their function could be determined more exactly.
The freely accessible ruin is a frequently visited hiking and excursion destination. From the town of Přimda below the castle, which lies a few kilometers away from the D5 motorway, the continuation of the Federal Highway 6 from Nuremberg via the Waidhaus border crossing and on to Plzeň and Prague, hiking trails with partly short but steep ascents lead to the castle. South below the castle hill is the small settlement Mílov.