Měšice Castle (South Bohemia)

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The baroque castle Měšice (German Meschitz ) is located in southern Bohemia on the outskirts of the town of Tábor in the Měšice district, about 2 kilometers east of the city center.

history

In 1545 the knight Prokop von Hejlowetz ( Prokop z Hejlovce ) had a knight's court built in the Renaissance style in the village Měšice, which has been documented since the 13th century .

At that time, the Prokop von Hejlowetz family owned the communities Měšice, Tschekanitz ( Čekanice ) and Illguth ( Stoklasná Lhota ).

The Ritterhof in Meschitz was converted into a baroque palace in 1699 by Johann Joseph Caretto Graf von Millessimo. In 1792, Johann Henniger von Seeberg installed water toilets that are still functional today. In 1817, Johann Schmidtgräber von Lustenegg expanded the magnificent building with an empire-style staircase and provided the exterior of the baroque palace with an empire facade.

When Franz Grillparzer was visiting the Baroque Meschitz Castle in 1816, he heard the legend of Baroness Antonia von Stillfried . He used them for his 1817 drama " The Ahnfrau ".

After 1877 the baroque chateau belonged to Barons Nádherný from Borutín . In 1997 Jan Berwid-Buquoy acquired the building, which had fallen into ruins. Mesice Castle is open to the public again after a reconstruction.

The castle is also the seat of the Czech Atlantic Commission .

Specialty

According to a legend, Prokop von Hejlowetz had the maid Anna walled up in the Meschitzer Ritterhof in 1555 . During the torture, the accused admitted that she had stolen gold and silver jewels from the rooms of the knight's court.

However, after Anna was walled in, various valuable items continued to disappear. It was later established that the actual thieves were magpies who stole the jewels while the rooms were being aired and deposited them in their nests on the wooded Meschitz hill directly opposite the Ritterhof. So the maid Anna was innocent and wrongly tortured and walled up.

Exposure

  • Living, living and working in the baroque palace - an insight into the problems of owning a cultural monument today.
  • Piquancy: functional water toilets from the 18th century.
  • Legendary: The legend about the walled-in house servant Anna.

Castle chapel

The chapel of the Měšice Castle was built in 1751 by Jan Antonín Votápek von Ritterswald. On March 26, 2010, after its reconstruction, the chapel was consecrated in the name of St. John of Nepomuk by Cardinal Miloslav Vlk . The chapel is open to the public and hosts ecumenical services.

literature

  • Christiane Berwid-Buquoy: Tabor-Meschitz. Community, baroque castle, legend about the walled-in maid Anna and other enigmatic stories of the Tabor region. BI-HI Verlag, Berlin 2005, 250 pages, ISBN 3-924933-07-3 (German and Czech).
  • Renata Pourová: Castles, chateaux and fortresses that survived the year 2000. The South Bohemian Region. Budweis 2006, ISBN 80-239-7724-5 (in four languages: German, English, French and Czech).

Web links

Commons : Měšice chateau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Schmidtgräbner von Lustenegg owned the village Tomitschan in the Komotau district from 1622 to 1700 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '21.8 "  N , 14 ° 42' 5"  E