Dětenice Castle

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Baroque chateau Dětenice

The Dětenice Castle (German Jettenitz ) is located south of the Bohemian Paradise in the Czech Republic .

history

Beneš von Hruštice , the ancestor of the Dětenice and Waldstein family , built a fortress in 1295 on the site of the present castle .

Since 1503 Dětenice was owned by the Lords of Křinecký. In 1587 Bohuslav Křinecký von Ronov converted the Gothic fortress into a Renaissance chateau. After his death, his widow married Wenzel von Lobkowitz . With him she managed the castle until her son Jiří Křinecký von Ronov came of age and took over the reign. He built the tower in 1619, which has retained its original appearance to this day. After the Battle of the White Mountain , the property was confiscated by Emperor Ferdinand II . Jiří Křinecký was supposed to be executed, but was able to flee to Saxony in time.

Albrecht von Wallenstein , who has owned the castle since 1622, exchanged it a few years later for other lands with Adam von Waldstein, the highest court master of the Bohemian crown . His son Karl von Waldstein sold Dětenice to Jan Christoph von Waldstein . His son Ladislav Octavian (1670-1717), who campaigned for the recatholization of the area, ruled after him . Octavian's daughter married the Count of Kunburg Castle and after his death Count Batthyány . This was the educator of the later growing emperor Joseph II and administered from 1760 Dětenice.

During the reign of Count Christian Clam-Gallas , the palace was converted into a late baroque palace from 1762–1765 based on a design by the builder Zacharias Fiegert . Christian's son Karl Clam-Gallas ruled Dětenice 1775–1783. He left the place after the death of his wife. The next owner was Baron Jakob Wimmer von Wimmersberg , a well-known Prague benefactor who had made his fortune in the Napoleonic Wars as the main supplier to the imperial army. Because of losses on the stock exchange, he lost all of his possessions.

The next owner from 1808 was Jan Philip Wesenberk von Ampringen , an important Austrian diplomat and Prime Minister of the Habsburg Monarchy . However, after the revolution of 1848 he had to flee. His grandson Philip Wesenberk had the property expanded in the years that followed. After he was accused of high treason in 1873, he committed suicide by shooting in Vienna. Since he was a Knight of Malta, he bequeathed the castle to the Order of Malta in his will .

In recognition of their services, Emperor Franz Joseph I granted the Maltese Grand Prior of Bohemia and Austria Othenio Lichnovský and his successors the title of prince in 1881 . Othenio initiated further structural changes to the castle. After his death, Prince Quido Thun-Hohenstein took over. After that Dětenice was administered by a count of Hardegg ( Hardegg ). During his tenure, the Spanish Queen Maria Christina visited Dětenice.

In 1903 Dětenice was bought by the industrialist Adolf Bloch. However, his son Rudolf Bloch lost all of his fortune on the stock exchange. In 1927 the architect Emanuel Řehák bought the property. He was a great patriot who promoted the region economically and made part of the castle accessible to the public.

In 1948 the property was expropriated by the Czechoslovak state . A horticultural school for girls was set up in the castle, and later a home for those who were difficult to educate.

In 1998 the couple Ondráček bought the castle and reconstructed it. The interior furnishings do not come from the castle, but from a large number of castle depots as loans for furnishing a castle after the restoration of the castle building at the beginning of the 2000s.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '5 "  N , 15 ° 10' 22.6"  E