Kratochvíle Castle

Kratochvíle Castle
Creation time :	16th Century
Standing position :	Noble
Place:	Netolice
Geographical location	49 ° 3 '32.2 "  N , 14 ° 10' 5.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '32.2 "  N , 14 ° 10' 5.9"  E

The Kratochvíle Castle (German: Schloss Kurzweil) is located northwest of Petrův Dvůr in the Okres Prachatice in the Czech Republic .

history

The old castle Kratochvíle built on the site of yard Rohn , who up to the Hussite wars the monastery Zlatá part and then to the Rosenberger fell. In its place, Wilhelm von Rosenberg built a Renaissance palace in the style of an Italian country house between 1583 and 1589 .

The castle was built according to plans by the Italian master builder Baldassare Maggi . In the entrance area and the dining room on the ground floor there are paintings with hunting motifs by Georg Widmann. The paintings on the ceilings of the common rooms with motifs from Roman history were created by Antonio Melana. The castle church, which was built at the same time, was painted by Georg Widmann based on models by Albrecht Dürer .

The castle is surrounded by a castle garden with walls and moats. Until 2007 there was an exhibition of Czech cartoon and animation in the castle.

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 , p. 392 f.
• Castles, monasteries and chateaus, Waldviertel, Danube region, South Bohemia, Vysočina, South Moravia, ISBN 978-3-9502262-2-5 , p. 59 f

Web links

Commons : Kratochvíle Castle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Czech)