Buchlovice Castle

The Buchlovice Castle ( German: Buchlowitz or Buchlau ) is located in the same place in the district Uherské Hradiště.

When the remote Buchlov did not meet the tastes of its owner Johann Dietrich von Peter forest, he let in Buchlovice a three-winged Baroque palace built its main wings are created semi-circular. It was completed in 1702 and should be used for representative purposes. It is the courtyard on one floor and two floors down to the lowered garden.

The interiors have been furnished with stucco work by Baldassare Fontana. The ballroom is decorated with a ceiling fresco of the builder and his wife Anna Eleonora of Colonna - rock. The rooms are equipped with fine furnishings ovens precious and valuable paintings.

For the castle administration and the servants also a three-winged building was erected above the castle from 1710 to 1738, in which the architecture of the lower castle repeats.

Built by Italian models, architecturally valuable asset is the architect Domenico Martinelli attributed.

The castle park was originally created in the French style and is richly decorated with sculptures of ancient gods and vases. The more complex shaped the Count Berchtold, which Buchlowitz belonged from 1763 to an English park with rare trees. It covers an area of ​​18 hectares.

Agreed on September 16, 1908 Austria - Hungary and Russia in the run-up to the Bosnian annexation crisis on the lock, then part of the Ambassador of the Danube monarchy in Saint Petersburg, Count Leopold Berchtold, the agreement of Buchlau a route by which the monarchy Bosnia - Herzegovina and Russia should gain free passage through the Dardanelles.