Ctěnice Castle
The Ctěnice Castle (German Ctienitz , also Stenitz ) is located on the northern outskirts of the Czech capital Prague and houses a museum.
geography
The castle is located 13 kilometers northeast of the center of Prague in the settlement of the same name, Ctěnice, belonging to the Vinoř district . It is surrounded by a castle park.
history
The Ctěnice fortress has been documented in writing since 1372. Around 1550 it was transformed into a renaissance castle under Nikolaus Herzan von Harras . After his death in 1572 Petr Myšek from Žlunice bought it. In 1601 Katharina Smiřická von Hasenburg acquired the castle from his descendants . She died in 1604 and her heir was Johann Zbinco von Hasenburg . He sold the rule to Wenceslaus Boryn of Lhota . His son Jan exchanged his inheritance in 1626 with Adam von Waldstein for the place Budeničky (okres Kladno ). The heir Maximilian von Waldstein sold Ctěnice in 1652 to Jan Anton Losy von Losinthal , who four years later also acquired Sluhy . Ernestine, the widow of Adam Philipp Losy von Losinthal, sold the entire family property to Joseph-Niklas zu Windisch-Graetz after the male line had died out on May 12, 1781 . Windisch-Graetz had the castle rebuilt in the classical style. After his death, the rule was sold to Anton Baron von Hochberg in 1803. He expanded the rule in the following year to include the Goldberg estate. In 1808, Johann Anton Hartmann von Klarstein bought the property; Franz Anton Count Desfours followed in 1820 and from 1831 his daughters Josefine von Schwarzenberg and Gabriele von Dietrichstein as owners.
In 1849 the Viennese industrialist Alexander von Schoeller acquired Ctěnice from the estate of Aloisia Countess Desfours and also bought the goods Čakovice and Miškovice. The Schoeller family owned the castle for almost a hundred years and was expropriated on November 24, 1945 by decree of President Beneš .
After the Second World War, the castle fell into disrepair. In the course of the municipal territorial reform of 1950, the castle and town of Ctěnice, which had belonged to the municipality of Přezletice since 1850 , were moved to Vinoř. Since the incorporation of Vinoř in 1974, the Ctěnice Castle has been located in the urban area of Prague. When the use of the palace by the Prague State Estate ended after the Velvet Revolution , the building was threatened with demolition. In 1995 the Prague Information Service (PISka) acquired the ruinous castle and renovated it.
Since June 2000 there has been a carriage museum in one of the farm buildings, in which various Prague museums present their respective exhibits. The exhibition provides comprehensive information about the history and types of the wagon .
Since June 2004 you can find out about the history and reconstruction of the building on the ground floor of the castle. A year later the exhibition "Under the Emperor ... - Habsburgs in the Bohemian Lands, 1791 - 1914" was added.
In 2009 a wellness hotel opened in an adjoining building. There is also a riding stable on the castle grounds.
Web links
- Ctěnice chateau. The City of Prague Museum, accessed September 5, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ^ History - Ctěnice Chateau. The City of Prague Museum, accessed September 5, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 57.7 ″ N , 14 ° 33 ′ 51.1 ″ E