Kostelec nad Černými lesy Castle
The Kostelec nad Černými lesy Castle (until 1920: Černý Kostelec ; German: Schwarzkosteletz ) in the town of the same name in Kostelec in the East Prague district belongs to the Central Bohemian Region .
history
Schwarzkosteletz Castle was first mentioned in 1348, although the area was settled by colonists in the first half of the 13th century. In that year, Margrave Johann Heinrich , a brother of Emperor Charles IV , agreed to a contract concluded by his father Johann von Luxemburg in the 1st quarter of the 14th century, with which the lordship and the castle "Costelicz in Nygra Sylva" with the castle Nachod should be exchanged. The first known non-royal owner of Schwarzkosteletz was Ješek von Náchod . His sons sold the castle and rule of Schwarzkosteletz to Johannes Secretary, from whom the Slavata von Chlum and Koschumberg acquired it in 1492 . Since Dionysius ( Divis ) Slawata died in 1575, had participated in the Bohemian Estates Rebellion of 1547, whose possessions were by Czech King Ferdinand I. confiscated.
After the castle was partially destroyed by fire in 1548, King Ferdinand I arranged for it to be converted into a Renaissance castle . The renovation was carried out according to plans by the builders Hans Tirol and Ulrico Aostalli .
In 1558, Jaroslav Smiřický von Smiřice bought Schwarzkosteletz, who designated the castle as the ancestral seat of his family and continued the reconstruction of the castle into a representative complex. When in 1621 after the Battle of the White Mountain all possessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Smiřický von Smiřice were confiscated by Emperor Ferdinand II , Albrecht von Wallenstein received Schwarzkosteletz. He sold it to Charles I of Liechtenstein in 1623 . Under the Liechtenstein family , the palace was redesigned in the Baroque style from 1759 by Duchess Maria Theresa of Savoy-Liechtenstein according to plans by the Tyrolean master builder Josef Jäger . The castle was her residence and she maintained a court there.
After the abolition of the lordship with the end of the inheritance , part of the castle was the seat of the district court and accommodation for the estate administration offices from 1850 onwards. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918, the Schwarzkosteletz castle and estate were expropriated from the Liechtenstein family in a land reform and passed into state ownership. Today the Schwarzkosteletz Castle houses facilities of the Forestry Faculty of the Czech Agricultural University in Prague .
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Engel: Castles and locksmiths in Bohemia. According to old templates. 2nd edition 1978 Frankfurt am Main ISBN 3 8035 8013 7 , Schwarz-Kosteletz page 82, illustration page 205.
- 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 , pp. 560-561.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 44.6 " N , 14 ° 51 ′ 45.2" E