Jemniště Castle
Jemniště Castle (German Castle Jemnischt ) is located in Postupice in Okres Benešov in the Czech Republic .
history
A fort , first mentioned in 1381, belonged to the Lords of Cimburg . When it no longer met the representative duties after several changes of ownership, it was from 16./17. Century used for residential and commercial purposes.
Near the fort, Franz Adam von Trauttmansdorff had a baroque palace built in 1724 based on the designs of the Prague architect Franz Maximilian Kaňka , which was surrounded by a French garden . The rococo hall is adorned with a ceiling fresco from 1754 depicting Olympus by Felix Anton Scheffler , who in the same year also painted the ceiling of the Holy Trinity in the palace chapel . Wenzel Lorenz Reiner decorated the choir with the scene of the Ascension and allegorical depictions and virtues.
Count Heinrich Franz von Rottenhan , who came into possession of the castle in 1773, had the complex partially restored in the classicist style and an English landscape garden laid out.
The next owners were the Buquoy , Windischgrätz families and finally the Sternberg family , which was expropriated after the Second World War . The palace complex passed into state ownership, but returned to the family in 1995.
literature
- Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 .
- Marianne Mehling (Ed.): Knaurs Art Guide Czech Republic . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-26609-1 .
- Zdeněk Wirth, Jaroslav Benda: Castles and palaces of Czechoslovakia. Artia, Prague 1954, pp. B-265-B-266.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Zdeněk Wirth, Jaroslav Benda: Castles and palaces of Czechoslovakia. 1954, p. B-265.
- ^ History of the facility on the castle website , accessed April 12, 2015.
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 38 ″ N , 14 ° 47 ′ 8 ″ E