Červená Lhota Castle

The Cervena Lhota Castle ( German Rothlhotta ) is a Renaissance castle in the town district Pluhův Zdar in South Bohemia. It is located on the creek Direnský midst of an artificial pond on a rock, which is due to the increase of the water level by means of the weir to an island.

History

From the Vorhussitenzeiten lack written sources. The first written record dates from 1465. Kába z Rybňan acquired in January 1530, the Gothic stronghold Nová Lhota and converted it into a castle. 1597 acquired William Ruth of Nová Lhota Dírná, Nový Dvor and the houses below Jižná and Deštná and the Church of the Holy Trinity and built the Nové Lhoty Červené, which included the towns and the villages Deštná Dírná, Brezina and Višňová. Barbara Ruth sold Dírná 1607 to Adam Wratislaw of Mitrowitz.

After the Battle of White Mountain lost the Protestant Ruth Dírná of their property and the imperial army leader Balthasar de Maradas received Cervena Lhota. Maradas sold the reign of the imperial cavalry captain and garrison commander of Neuhaus Antonio de Bruccio, who died in 1638.

After his death was Lhota property of Slawata, the Lords of Hradec Jindřichův. After the death of Ferdinand Wilhelm Slawata the line died out in the male line in 1693. His daughter Maria Theresa sold the reign of Ernst Friedrich Graf zu Windisch -Graetz. 1755 acquired Franz de Paula, Baron de Gudenus Cervena Lhota. 1796 bought the Silesian nobleman Baron Ignaz von Stillfried the rule Cervena Lhota as well as the goods and Chválkov Hojovice. Still Fried invited in 1796 the penniless and seriously ill Silesian composer Carl Ditter von Dittersdorf to a, who spent his last years in the castle belonging to the Neuhof.

Modern Times

1807 Moritz inherited from Stillfriedplatz possession. He sold the reign 1820 Theresa Veith, born Neupauer. 1835 acquired Edward Prince of Schoenburg Cervena Lhota.

Up to 1945 the castle was owned by the Schönburger. After the Second World War, the princes who had sympathized during the German occupation, the Nazis were dispossessed and deported to Austria.

Location

In the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea 1976 here lives the high-spirited princess who despises the swineherd. 1995, the castle in the fairy tale The key to happiness, the residence of the newly married.