Hluboká Castle

Hluboká ( German Castle woman mountain ) located in the town of Hluboká in southern Bohemia.

Building and inventory

Walls and ceilings are covered with fine woods and rich carvings. The most valuable pieces of furniture are housed in the breakfast room. The bedroom and the dressing room of Princess Eleonore, the so-called Hamilton - Cabinet and the reading room decorating images by European masters from the 16th to 18th century, and chandeliers, stained glass and faience from Delft. The portraits on the walls are the most important representatives of the family of Schwarzenberg dar. The largest room is the library with a coffered ceiling, which was brought by the family castle in Schwarzenberg to Hluboká. Excellent level has the armory of Hluboká. In the neo-Gothic chapel is an altar with a large late Gothic ark. In the former Castle Riding Hall is located today Aleš South Bohemian Gallery ( Alšova Bohemian Gallery ) with an exhibition of paintings by Dutch and Flemish painters of the 17th and 18th century statues.

History

On the property was initially an early Gothic castle from the second half of the 13th century. King Vladislav Jagiello pledged the government in 1490, together with the Good Kamýk to William of Pernštejna. This could expand the castle end of the 15th century and left it in 1514 to his youngest son Vojtěch. After his death in 1534, inherited his brother Johann possession, he left him to his cousin Andreas Ungnad of Sonegg. The Ungnad of Sonegg economies the rule to ruin. King Ferdinand I earned back the indebted estate in 1561 and sold it a year later to hereditary Joachim Neuhaus. His son Adam sold the estate Kamýk 1562 to Jan Vojkovský of Milhostice and had rebuilt by the architect Baldassare Maggi into a Renaissance castle, the castle Hluboká in the 1580s. Joachim Ulrich von Neuhaus sold 1598 castle and lordship Hluboká because of indebtedness to his creditors Bohuslav Malovci Malovic. According to financial speculation and participation in the uprising of the estates of the Malovci Malovice were confiscated and handed over to the government in 1623 by Baltasar Marradas who had it re-catholicize. His heirs sold it in 1661 to Johann Adolf I of Schwarzenberg. At the request of Prince Adam Franz, the castle was rebuilt in the early 18th century, designed by Paul Ignaz Bayer and his successor Anton Erhard Martinelli in Baroque style.

In the second third of the 19th century decided Johann Adolf II, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Hluboká remodel in the style of Romanticism. The project was developed by the Viennese architect Franz Beer, who led the 1840 Construction work began twenty years. The old buildings were demolished and in its place erected a picturesque castle in the Tudor Gothic style. The sophisticated interior and exterior design finished Ferdinand Deworetzký in 1871.

In 1947, the possession of Prince Schwarzenberg was confiscated ( Lex Schwarzenberg ).