Červená Lhota Castle

Červená Lhota Castle

The Červená Lhota Castle (German Rothlhotta ) is a Renaissance water castle in the district of the same name in Pluhův Žďár in southern Bohemia . It is located at Direnský potok in the middle of an artificial pond on a rock that became an island due to the rise in the water level through a weir.

history

There are no written sources from the pre-Hussite period . The first written record comes from 1465. Jan Kába z Rybňan acquired the Gothic fortress Nová Lhota in 1530 and converted it into a castle. In 1597 Wilhelm Ruth von Dírná bought Nová Lhota, Nový Dvor and the houses below Jižná and Deštná as well as the Church of the Holy Trinity and established the Nové Lhoty Červené manor, which also included the town of Deštná and the villages of Dírná , Březina and Višňová . Barbara Ruth sold Dírná in 1607 to Adam Wratislaw von Mitrowitz .

Aerial view

After the battle of the White Mountain , the Protestant Ruth von Dírná lost her property and the imperial general Balthasar de Maradas received Červená Lhota. Maradas sold the rule to the imperial Rittmeister and garrison commander of Neuhaus , Antonio de Bruccio, who died in 1638.

After his death Lhota became the property of the Slawata , the lords of Jindřichův Hradec . After the death of Ferdinand Wilhelm Slawata, the male line died out in 1693. His daughter Maria Theresia sold the rule to Ernst Friedrich Graf zu Windisch-Graetz . In 1755 Franz de Paula, Baron de Gudenus acquired Červená Lhota. In 1796 the Silesian nobleman Ignaz Freiherr von Stillfried bought the Červená Lhota estate and the Chválkov and Hojovice estates . From 1796 onwards, Stillfried invited the destitute and seriously ill Silesian composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf , who spent the last years of his life in the Neuhof belonging to the castle.

Modern times

In 1807 Moritz von Stillfried inherited the property. In 1820 he sold the estate to Theresia Veith, nee Neupauer. In 1835 Heinrich Eduard Prince von Schönburg -Hartenstein (1787–1872) acquired Červená Lhota. First of all, the new owners rebuilt the castle. In the middle of the 19th century, a castle tower was built and the gables were modified to adapt them to the neo-Gothic style that was common at the time. Between 1903 and 1913 these redesigns were removed under Johann Schönburg-Hartenstein. He had the castle rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style. In charge of this was the architect Humbert Walcher von Moltheim, who gave the castle its current form.

The castle was owned by the Schönburgers until 1945. After the Second World War, the princely family was expropriated and deported to Austria.

Location

In the fairy tale film The Princess and the Pea from 1977, the cocky princess who despises the swineherd lives here. In 1995 the castle in the fairy tale film The Key to Happiness is the residence of the newlyweds.

literature

• Castles, monasteries and chateaus Waldviertel regions, Danube region, South Bohemia, Vysočina, South Moravia ISBN 978-3-9502262-2-5 , p. 21 f

Web links

Commons : Červená Lhota Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Zámek Červená Lhota

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 46 ″  N , 14 ° 53 ′ 7 ″  E