Dřevíč Castle

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The Dřevíč Castle (German Castle Grund ) is a former hunting lodge in the Czech Republic . It is nine kilometers northwest of Beroun in the Pürglitzer Forest in the area of ​​the municipality Sýkořice in the Okres Rakovník .

Sýkořice, Dřevíč, from the driveway

geography

The castle is located on the right side above the valley of Vůznice in Křivoklátská vrchovina in the conservation area Křivoklátsko . State road II / 116 runs between Nižbor and Lány to the west of the castle . Almost two kilometers to the north are the ruins of the medieval Jenčov ( Ginčow ) hunting castle on a spur .

Surrounding villages are Běleč and Bratronice in the north, Horní Bezděkov and Malé Kyšice in the northeast, Chyňava in the east, Železná , Hýskov and Nižbor in the southeast, Otročiněves in the south, Žloukovice in the southwest, Račice in the west and Sýkořice in the northwest.

The valley east of the chateau is protected as the Vůznice National Nature Reserve.

history

According to ancient traditions, the Dřewíč castle, mentioned in the Chronica Boemorum from 1002 onwards, is said to have stood on the plateau above the Vůznice Gorge and served as a residence for Prince Udalrich . The old field name Obora also indicated the existence of an earlier hunting lodge. Today, however, the Dřevíč hill near Kozojedy is assumed to be its location .

In 1572, the governor of the Kingdom of Bohemia, Archduke Ferdinand , had a hunting lodge built in the Obora forest belonging to the Crown Lordship of Pürglitz . In 1685 Emperor Leopold I sold the rule to Ernst Joseph Graf von Waldstein . In 1731 Johann Joseph Graf von Waldstein bequeathed the rule to his daughter and universal heiress Maria Anna Fürstin zu Fürstenberg . Her husband, Joseph Wilhelm zu Fürstenberg , had the Jagdschlösschen Grund built near the hunter's house.

In his topographical description of the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1845 Johann Gottfried Sommer did not mention the castle as such. Instead, the head forester's office in Grund and the ruins of a small castle are called Dřewič. Only the Dřewič hunter's house is shown on the Franciscan land survey from this time.

In 1923 Joachim Egon Fürst zu Fürstenberg was born at the castle. His grandfather Max Egon II zu Fürstenberg sold the Pürglitz goods including Grund Castle in 1929 to the Czechoslovak state. After that, the castle, again called Dřevíč, served as the seat of a state forestry office. In the second half of the 20th century, the castle became the legal entity of the General Directorate of the Agricultural Supply and Purchasing Cooperative in Prague (ZZN), which used it as a training center.

After the Velvet Revolution , Karel Schwarzenberg acquired the castle in 1991 . It serves as his private residence and is not open to the public.

Structural system

The single-storey baroque building with a rectangular floor plan and mansard roof , erected in the first half of the 18th century, was rebuilt in the 19th century. A small coat of arms of the Fürstenberg Princely House is located above the entrance on the south side. The ensemble also includes a summer pavilion and farm buildings.

To the west of the castle is the neo-baroque chapel of St. Hubertus. It was built in 1899 by the architect Amand Louis Bauqué , who also rebuilt the Fürstenberg Castle in Donaueschingen .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 13 Rakonitzer Kreis, 1845, p. 281
  2. ↑ http://www.mapy.cz/#!x=13.990058&y=50.021934&z=13&l=5&rp=m
  3. ↑ http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/29.htm

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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 16 ″  N , 13 ° 58 ′ 58.6 ″  E