Dalečín Castle
The Dalečín Castle (German Daletschin ) is located in the municipality of Dalečín in Okres Žďár nad Sázavou , Czech Republic . It now serves as the municipal office.
location
The castle is located in the southern part of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands in a bend in the Svratka river, east of the ruins of the Dalečín castle on the site of the former outer castle.
history
The existence of a fortress next to Tollstein Castle has been recorded in Dalečín since 1390. After Paul Katharyn von Katharn had acquired the dominions of Dalečín and Jimramov from the Pernsteiners in 1588 , he made Dalečín his seat and had the old fortress expanded into a simple renaissance castle with arcades. The walls of the castle ruins were used as building material. In 1593 Katharyn moved his seat to Jimramov, where he had a new castle built. His underage descendants sold the goods in 1603 to the Dubský von Třebomyslice.
After the Battle of White Mountain in 1621, the property of the Protestant Jan Dubský, who had fought alongside the rebels , was confiscated and sold to Stephan Schmidt von Freyhofen, who was loyal to the emperor. The Protestant Schmidt fell victim to intrigue and went into exile. Heinrich Graf Schlick acquired his property in 1633 . This made the castle the official residence of an economic officer of his rule Kunstadt . From then on, Dalečín always belonged to the rule of the Kunstadt, whose owners often changed.
The Counts of Coudenhove-Honrichs had the Renaissance castle converted into a hunting lodge in the style of a Tyrolean mountain hut in 1850. Only the basement remained from the original building. In an inventory from 1886, more than ten rooms and their furnishings are listed for the castle. These included the red and blue rooms as guest rooms, the countess' drawing room, two countess rooms, the count's study, the bedroom and the dining room. The kitchen and rooms for the staff were set up on the ground floor.
After Franziska Comtesse Coudenhove-Honrichs joined the Rajhrad Monastery, in 1939 the Congregation of Sisters of the Comforters of the Divine Heart of Jesus ( Těšitelek Božského srdce Ježíšova ) inherited her remaining property. The order intended to use the castle as a rest home for sisters who worked in nursing. After the German occupation, the palace was confiscated by the National Socialists and converted into a training center for the Hitler Youth for use on the Eastern Front. At the end of the Second World War, members of the Waffen SS were stationed there who were deployed against partisans and resistance fighters. After the end of the war, the Rajhrad sisters received the castle back. At the beginning of the 1950s they were again expropriated and the castle nationalized. Subsequently, the entire interior of the castle disappeared and the exterior of the building was also stripped of its jewelry.
Between 1997 and 1998 the facade and the wooden balconies were renovated. In addition, the overgrown outdoor areas around the castle and the castle ruins were restored to a well-tended condition. Today the former castle is used as the seat of the municipal administration. It also houses a doctor's practice and communal apartments.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 31 " N , 16 ° 14 ′ 38.2" E
