Liběchov Castle
The Liběchov Castle (German: Liboch ) is located in the municipality of Liběchov in Okres Mělník in the Czech Republic .
history
The originally late Gothic castle was converted into a Renaissance castle in the 16th century by Kaspar Belwitz von Nostitz . From 1725 to 1730 it was rebuilt into a baroque palace by Franz Maximilian Kaňka under Johann Joachim Pachta von Reihofen . Anton von Veith (1793–1853), who inherited the property after the death of his father Jakob Veith in 1833, gathered leading representatives of Czech romanticism at the castle, including Bernard Bolzano , who completed his work “The Paradoxes of Infinite” here. In 1855 it was rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style .
After the Second World War, the castle was not used and initially left to decay. In 1963 it was taken over by the Prague National Museum , which, after extensive reconstruction, set up an exhibition of works of Asian cultures in 21 halls. After the Velvet Revolution , it was restituted in the early 1990s. In August 2002 it suffered severe flood damage and has not been open to the public since then.
The castle is surrounded by a park. The sculptor Václav Levý carved heroic figures from Bohemian history out of a baroque rock wall in the garden wing .
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. 336.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 30 ″ N , 14 ° 26 ′ 43 ″ E