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Coat of arms of the Lords of Žerotín from the 1st half of the 16th century
Žerotín bastion
A fragment of a sandstone ledge measuring 28 x 87 x 38 cm with a pin plate measuring 36 x 33 cm from the demolished Žerotínská Bastion, now deposited in the Museum of the Novojičín Region, inv.no. 8750, H 5869.
The badly damaged plate shows a crowned lion growing out of a hill.
The so-called Žerotínská Bastion stood by the fortification wall in the centre of the western part of today's Sokolovská Street. It had a circular plan and was one storey higher than the connected wall. The cornice, which encircled it in a ring, was supplemented with a stone emblem of the Lords of Žerotín. Historians place the date of the bastion's foundation at 1500, which is said to have been carved above the entrance to the bastion; however, this is probably a mistake, as the bastion had fortification morphology only in the mid-16th century. In 1907 the bastion was demolished almost to the ground. The Žerotín family purchased the Nový Jičín estate in 1497 and held it until 1558.
Heinrich von Kadich - Conrad Blažek: Der mährische Adel. Nürnberg 1899, pp. 192-193, tab. 132; Pilnáček (1930), p. 452; Pilnáček (1991-1998), pp. 1433-1434