Nové Zámky Castle (Nesovice)
The Nové Zámky Castle (German New Castle ) is a Renaissance building in the village of Nové Zámky in the municipality of Nesovice in Okres Vyškov , Czech Republic . It was never completed.
geography
The castle is located in the east of Nesovice on a terrace on the right bank of the Litava River . Towards the northeast rise the hills of the Litenčické vrchy , in the southeast the Mars Mountains and south of the Ždánický les ( Steinitzer Forest ).
history
The chateau was laid out in 1561 for Záviš von Víckov and Bolerady and his wife Johanka von Háj as a new representative seat in order to replace the Dobročkovice Fortress as a manorial seat . After the builder died in 1569 after completing a quarter of the new chateau, his successor Přemek von Víckov had the work continued. However, he lacked the funds required to complete the large project, so that construction finally had to be stopped. In 1575 Přemek von Víckov sold the unfinished castle to the brothers Heinrich and Sigismund von Zástřizl , who later sold it to the Martinovský von Rozseč family. Subsequently, the lords of the castle changed frequently, the mighty torso was never completed.
During the Thirty Years' War, the castle belonging to the rebel Adam Kravařský von Šlejvice was confiscated after the Battle of White Mountain and sold to the imperial chamberlain and favorite Nikolaus Nusser von Nußeck. In 1645 the Swedes looted and devastated Neuschloss. After Nusser had lost his property and his offices due to embezzlement, Karl Kaspar von der Leyen received his goods in 1660 . He was followed in 1664 by Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf . He immediately sold the castle to the commandant of the Hungarian Hradisch fortress , Alexander Heinrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf . After further changes of ownership, the founder of the learned society Societas incognitorum , Josef Leopold von Petrasch, acquired the property in 1750 . He used the castle for ancient games. In 1798 Alois Joseph von Liechtenstein acquired the goods for 135,000 guilders and added them to his rule of Butschowitz . As a result, the mansion became extinct.
From then on, the castle was used as a depot and residential building, and its decline began. The western part of the north wing was then demolished. The Liechtensteiners later left the castle to the owner of the Austerlitz sugar factory, E. Seidl. In the course of the land reform, the legionnaire Alois Cigánek acquired the Nový Zámek castle and estate in the 1920s. In the second half of the 20th century, the local agricultural cooperative became the owner of the castle and ran it completely down.
On the initiative of the State Preservation of Monuments, renovation of the castle began in the 1970s to prevent it from falling into complete ruin. After 1990 it became the property of Krajského památkového střediska (KPS). After the restitution, the castle has been in the possession of the Florián family since 2002 and has only been open to the public on special occasions since it was sold in 2004. It serves as a residence.
Building
The project, designed by a builder Vlach ( Italian ) from northern Italy , whose real name is unknown, envisaged a four-wing two-storey building in the style of northern Italian forts with a rectangular courtyard and prismatic tower. Only the east wing and half of the north wing were built. The western part of the north wing was demolished under the Liechtensteiners.
Remarks
- ↑ it could possibly be the architect Antonio Ericer , who was working in South Bohemia and Moravia at the time and is sometimes referred to as Antonio Vlach ; however, there is no evidence of this
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Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 17 ° 5 ′ 30.5 ″ E