During the Hussite Wars (1419-1434), the city was several times besieged and conquered. In 1427, Prokop the Great defeated the crusaders near Tachov. The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) damaged the city considerably. In 1664, Count Johann Anton Losy became the new proprietor. The Losy family began conversion of the medieval castle to a large baroque château. In 1784, the title passed to the Windisch-Graetz family. The Windisch-Graetzs, in their turn, rebuilt the house in the classical style at great expense.

Tachov Chateau

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The township Chodová Planá belongs to the most interesting urban units in Tachov district. It is mostly due to extensive building activity of the Haimhausens at the turn of the 19th century. The issue of buildings in Chodová Planá is unclear due to the fire, which destroyed most of the documents.
The first castle was a two-storied Renaissance building, which is shown on the map of Planá farmhouse from 1676. The castle burned down sometime before 1734 , when a new castle was built. The old castle was not probably demolished and continued to serve after the reconstruction as housing for officials. It is not possible to tell, where the castle stood. It could be the building standing across the road opposite the former castle with No. 2. This property is called the castle in 1880. The castle built in 1734 is today marked with No.2. This is a rather large two-winged building covered with the French roof. Above the central buttress, where are the entries with vaulted passages, are simple little Baroque gables.
Preparations for the construction of the new castle started in 1970´s during the time of Jan Arnošt. However the youngest residency in Chodová Planá, Neo-renaissance castle, originated during the time of the Lord Hans Ernst von Berchem – Haimhausen according the plan of the Viennese architect R. Feldschark in 1902 – 1904. It was built by the architect Thomas Thuner from Planá. After the war the castle became the property of the state. In the fifties the castle and the large part of the park were turned into a military area and were occupied by Planá company of the Border Guard. Troops remained here untill 1990. Today the castle is owned by the Chodová Planá township and undergoes slow reconstruction.
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Chodová Planá Chateau

The ruin of a Romanesque stronghold built probably by German family Vohburg. They lost the stronghold almost immediately to the Czech king Vladislav I. In the 15th century it was occupied by marauding knights and was finally left to decay in the 16th century. From the original stronghold today remains only a monumental tower visible from afar.
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Přimda Castle

Original early Gothic water citadel rebuilt into a chateau in the 16th century. In the 19th century, during the era of Romanticism, the chateau was enhanced by the addition of a park and an attractive neo-Gothic appearance, dominated by a cylindrical tower. At present, extensive reconstruction is taking place throughout the entire grounds. In June 2003 the first part to be restored was opened to the public.
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Bor u Tachova Chateau

The Třebel Castle is located on a steep promontory above the Kosový creek. It was founded by the Lords of Svojšín in the 13th century. An important military encounter of the Thirty Years War, the battle at Třebel, took place at the castle in the 17th century . In June 1647 the Swedish army under the command of Marshal Wrangel launched the military intervention in Bohemia. Cheb gave up on the 17th July and Wrangel advanced further into the Bohemia inland. The Swedes came to the 2 km wide and up to 80 m deep valley of the Kosí creek. By seizing the castle Třebel they began to build the foreground. The imperial troops reconquered the castle on the 19th August. The Swedes then retreated then and built the camp about 2 km from the edge of the valley.
The villages of Týnec and Vysoké Sedliště provided the administrative support. The Imperial army camp spread between Olbramov and Vlčí mountain with the town Černošín in the rear. Both armies built outposts and field fortifications. About 9000 imperial soldiers launched an attack on the 22nd August. After two hours of fighting, both armies withdrew, victory was achieved by none. Then the Swedes withdrew to German territory followed by the imperial army. Třebel castle was destroyed during heavy fighting. In 1648 Emperor Ferdinand III finally ordered the castle to be to pulled down, so that it could not be used in the anti-Habsburg revolt.
The battle at Třebel castle is shown in two engravings, which capture also the castle, by M. Merian. Archeological excavations and historical engravings show, that there were outer walls at the back of the promontory. The castle itself was protected by a moat , which was carved in the rock. A square tower protected the gate. Round bergfrit stood near the gate. Later an extremely large farmyard with baroque granary with carved cellars underneath and a gamekeeper´s lodge were built on the site of the former castle. Recognizable parts of the fortifications, moat and slight remains of walls are recognizable in the north and east. Several cannonballs are set in the walls of the former gamekeeper's house.
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Třebel Castle

he Volfštejn castle is located 1.5 km southwest of the village Černošín and can be reached by a yellow tourist trail. It stands on a rocky promontory below the summit of Vlčí hora (Wolf Mountain), which provided good conditions for the defense and even building material for the construction of the castle. This part of Vlčí hora is composed of basalt and is the remnant of the lava flow. The lavas are exposed in the moat where is the denuded columnar basalt. The columns are arranged vertically, but they originated in horizontally stored lava. The castle Volfštejn was not large, Its ground plan was almost oval. Volfštejn came into existence in the early 13th century. It was protected by steep slopes, facing the Černošín where ditches with timber stockade were built. Battlements formed an important part of the fortification that was located outside the main walls .This protected area of the bailey allowed the movement of defenders, especially shooters, in front of the main walls thus increasing the active protection. There is a circular, conical main tower called “bergfrit” with late Romanesque arched portal at the head of the castle. The rear part of the castle was occupied by the palace with flat ceilings and slightly conical walls. It had two floors. There are remains of younger building alterations in this part of the castle. There were two opposing constructions attached to the wall in the courtyard. Only remains of masonry were preserved from the square tower.It is not quite clear where the access path and entrance were. The present entrance to the castle was created additionally after the castle destruction.
The castle is an example of bergfrit type and belongs to rare buildings that have retained a simpler form without significant modernization. The founder was probably Ctibor of Volfštejn. The first written record of the castle dates from 1316. This year the castle is mentioned as the property of Beneda Volfštejn . The Lords of Volfštejn of had transverse stripes and a wolf or wolf 's head in their coat of arms. This family has lived in Volfštejn until 1460 when they moved to the nearby castle Třebel .Volfštejn was destroyed at the end of 1470 when Zelenohorská jednota was fighting with the troops of King Jiří z Poděbrad.The castle protected the important road that connected Plzeň with Cheb for more than a hundred years. The castle was merntioned as abandoned in 1527.
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Volfštejn Castle

Single-storey chateau, which was commissioned by Judita Príchovská. After Príchovsky family, the chateau was sold to the knight Josef Bigatt from Cheb. The partially preserved interior conceals Baroque marble fireplaces and wallpapering, which is painted on leather.
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Svojšín Chateau

The first castle, built before 1600, collapsed. After the Battle of White Mountain during the Thirty Years' War, the remains of the castle were confiscated and by 1630 granted to the Metternich family. From 1682 to 1691, Count Philipp Emmerich von Metternich turned the decayed ruins into a Baroque residence. From 1821 to 1836, the Austrian Chancellor Klemens Wenzel von Metternich remodeled the building in the neoclassical style with the help of architect Pietro Nobile.
The castle was confiscated from the Metternich family in 1945 by the Czechoslovak government.
The castle has a library that includes over 200 examples of incunabula, medieval manuscripts, valuable prints, scientific books, and scientific encyclopedias. In 1828, a museum was founded to display the castle's natural science collections, coins, historical and technological curiosities, manuscripts, ancient Egyptian monuments, marble sculptures, and pieces of Oriental art.