Janov Castle
The Janov Castle (German Castle Johnsdorf , formerly Jahnsdorf ) is located in the Janov district of the city of Litvínov in the Czech Republic .
geography
The castle is located opposite the junction of the road to Křížatky on the south-eastern outskirts of Janov. From the northeast to the south, the castle area is surrounded by former lignite mining areas. A milestone from 1841 stands southeast of the castle on the former road to Most .
history
Since the 14th century there was a medieval fortress on the site, which formed the center of the Riesenburg fiefdom Janov. The first proven owner was Jan Kerung von Lom in 1354. In 1505, the Lords of Jahn acquired the rule of Oberleutensdorf . Janov owned them until 1589, after which the estate belonged to Adolph von Hartitzsch . After the Battle of the White Mountain , the property belonging to the Protestant Nikolaus von Hartitzsch was confiscated in 1623. Nikolaus von Hartitzsch went into exile in Saxony and died in Freiberg in 1627 . The Hofkammer sold the Jahnsdorf estate to the border commissioner Johann Jacob Bruneau. After his death, his sisters left the Jahnsdorf and Maltheuer estates to his widow Ludmilla, who was married to Martin Jaroslav Ritter Michna von Waitzenau for the second time .
Between 1670 and 1678 Wilhelm Wenzel Franz Michna von Waitzenau had the new castle built, which is surrounded by a zoo. His son Johann Michna von Waitzenau sold the Maltheuer estate to Johann Anton Tluksa von Wraby and only kept Jahnsdorf. In 1722 Anna Barbara Kolowrat-Krakowsky , née Michna von Waitzenau , inherited the property, in 1726 she sold it to the city of Brüx for 70,000 guilders . This struck the property of their rule Kopitz to. Subsequently, the castle served as the seat of the forestry office of the town of Brüx and the Meierhof as town gardening.
After the Second World War, the castle was the seat of a state forest administration. Today the castle is a residential building; it is not open to the public.
Structural system
The castle was laid out with a rectangular floor plan. It consists of a single-storey main wing with a tent roof and ground-level side pavilions with mansard roofs and farm buildings. It is protected as a cultural monument.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 4 ″ N , 13 ° 34 ′ 7 ″ E