BÃtov Castle
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Bítov
The Bítov ( German castle Bítov ) belongs to Bítov in the Znojmo District in the Czech Republic. It lies about 25 km north- west of Znojmo above the Želetavka, near its confluence with the Thaya.
History
The Bítov Castle is one of the oldest castles in Moravia. It was first mentioned in 1061 as of sovereign ownership and part of the defense system against Austria.
1298 received the castle and manor Bítov the Moravian Governor Raymond of Lichtenburg as a deposit. Henry of Carinthia in 1307 gave the light burgers the possessions as hereditary fief. They set up in 1334, the castle chapel of the Assumption. End of the 15th century the castle was enlarged in a conversion.
After extinction of the family branch of the light Vöttauer Burger ( Bitovska z Lichtenburka ) came to the Strein ( Streun ) Schwarzenau castle and lordship in 1576. They built the castle around 1600 and sold it in 1617 to the Lords of Wlašim. Of these they inherited in 1736 by the Counts of Daun, in Znojmo also the Palais Daun could build a residence in the city itself. They restored the castle mid-19th century in the Gothic Revival style. The castle chapel was re-gothicised, designed by Anton Rücker.
Beginning of the 20th century belonged to the dominion Bítov the men of Haug joke. After further changes of ownership it acquired in 1912 by industrialist Georg Haas of Hasenfels, whose family was expropriated in 1945.
The castle houses a collection of paintings of Austrian and German Romantics, including by Julius Schnorr von Carol Field and a collection of stuffed animals of Baron Georg Haas of Hasenfels ( 1876-1945 ). From the end of the 17th century (1691? ) To about 1890, the famous Bibliotheca Zriniana almost two centuries was housed in an adjacent room of the castle, then sold as heir to the Vienna antiquarian Samuel Kende and finally returned to Croatia, where they now in the National - and University library in Zagreb is located.
Within the walls of the castle brewery, a collection of castle and forest ghosts from the 17th century to the public. From the 13th century only the western graveyard, tower remained.