Býchory Castle
The neo-Gothic castle Býchory or Castle Horskýsfeld (German Horskysfeld ) is located in the municipality of Býchory in Okres Kolín in the Czech Republic .
geography
The four-storey Horskysfeld Castle, built in the Tudor style and decorated with towers and battlements, is located on the southern outskirts of Býchory, surrounded by an English landscape park.
history
In place of the old fortress Býchory, the owner of the Kolín estate , Wenceslaus Baron Veith, had a single-storey castle built around 1835 .
Next to the old castle , the new Horskysfeld country castle, built in the neo-Gothic Tudor style by the Viennese architect Moritz Hinträger for Franz Seraph Horsky, was built in 1865 on the site of a forester's house . In older writings, the builder Halla is sometimes mentioned as the architect.
Horsky had the old castle converted as Villa Veith into a chancellery for his employees. Both buildings were connected with a covered corridor. In 1891 the owner of the Poděbrady estate , Philipp Ernst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Horskyfeld inherited . After the accident of his ten-year-old daughter Maria on January 19, 1897, Phillipp Ernst never re-entered the castle and in 1904 he sold it to the violinist Jan Kubelík . Oskar Nedbal and Josef Bohuslav Foerster , among others, stayed at the castle as guests of Kubelík . In 1914 Kubelík's son Rafael Kubelík was born on Horskysfeld. From 1916 Horskyfeld Castle belonged to the Prague winemaker Eugen Tauber. In 1920 his property was confiscated and the castle then served as an educational institution. In 1994 the Kubelík family got the castle back and in 1998 sold it to the entrepreneur Kabát, who let the empty building deteriorate. The ElitProfit company has owned the castle since 2007. A refurbishment and future use as a plastic surgery clinic are planned.
The castle park is not accessible and is in an overgrown condition. All architectural decorations were torn off at Villa Veith while the house was being used as an educational institution.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 51.6 ″ N , 15 ° 16 ′ 37.7 ″ E