Jaroměřice Castle
Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou Castle (German Jarmeritz ) is located in Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou in the Okres Třebíč Czech Republic .
history
Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou Castle is one of the largest Moravian buildings of the first half of the 18th century. The originally medieval fortress was rebuilt into a renaissance castle at the end of the 16th century , the shape of which was lost due to later modifications. In 1623, Wallenstein's confidante Gerhard von Questenberg acquired the Jarmeritz rule from Emperor Ferdinand II on his mediation , which had previously been expropriated from a family that had belonged to the Bohemian rebels ; a year later he also acquired Bečov in western Bohemia.
The current appearance of the seven-wing baroque palace was given to the building under Count Johann Adam von Questenberg in the years 1700–1737, who also made it a center of cultural life. With his death in 1752 the von Questenberg family died out . In 1761, Dominik Andreas Prince von Kaunitz-Rietberg , who was appointed heir by his aunt Maria Antonia von Questenberg, was given the name " Kaunitz - Rietberg -Questenberg". In 1813 the Kaunitz sold Beeches. After the male line of Kaunitz died out in 1898, Rudolf Christian Graf von Wrbna and Freudenthal († 1927) acquired a name and coat of arms as "Wrbna-Kaunitz-Rietberg-Questenberg and Freudenthal" for himself and his successors as the owner of the Kaunitz Fideikommiss . This family owned, among other things, Jarmeritz until the expropriation in 1945.
In the ancestral hall with a remarkable ceiling fresco and wood-paneled walls hang portraits of family members of the Questenberg. In addition to furniture from the Baroque period, contemporary musical instruments are also on display.
literature
- Castles, pens and palaces. Regions Waldviertel, Danube Basin, South Bohemia, Vysočina, South Moravia. Destination Waldviertel GmbH, Zwettl 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502262-2-5 , p. 53 f.
Web links
- Jaroměřice Castle German and other languages
- Jaroměřice Castle in Czech
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Gall : Austrian heraldry. Handbook of coat of arms science. 2nd edition Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-205-05352-4 , p. 274.
- ^ Gall, p. 359.
Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 37 ″ N , 15 ° 53 ′ 32 ″ E