016
Lintel at the entrance to the Baroque room; hallway, second floor
At the entrance to the Baroque room on the second floor of the castle, on the wooden door lintel, there is a carved inscription: 16 PB AS 39. The letters can be interpreted as abbreviated names of the Latin words presbyter and ara sacra, and the numbers as the year 1639, which would indicate that in that room there was a chapel, and a priest stayed in the room next to it. The prayer room has been exhibited in a smaller room on the first floor of the permanent exhibition of the Trakošćan Castle. It was common in noble buildings of this type. According to tradition, there was a castle chapel here, and after the last renovation of the museum exhibition, it was presented to visitors in a reconstructed form with sacral objects.
Chapels were an important content in burgs, either as separate buildings or as a part of towers or palases. In the Middle Ages, in addition to the parish church in the suburb of Trakošćan, there was probably a smaller prayer room in the burg itself.
