Oselce Castle

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Oselce Castle
Oselce Castle

The baroque castle Oselce (German Castle Wosseletz ) is a castle in the municipality of Oselce in Okres Plzeň-jih in the Czech Republic .

history

The fortress of Oselce was first mentioned in 1388 as the seat of Jezovec of Oselce, which can be traced back to 1397. In the 15th century it was the seat of Nikolaus von Langendorf , he was followed in 1479 by Lipolt Woselsky von Langendorf and between 1505 and 1513 by his sons Castolar and Heinrich. When Heinrich's son Peter Woselsky von Langendorf († 1578) was entered in the country table in 1543, a farm was mentioned for the first time next to the village and the fortress. In 1583 his daughter Markéta Kokořovec took over the estate from Kokořov. From 1601 it belonged to her son Peter, then his son Jiří Kryštof († 1662). In 1671 the Kokořovec von Kokořov sold the Woselecz estate to Jindřich Vilém Vitanovský von Vlčkovice.

The first castle was built in 1680 as part of the renovation for Jiří Vojtěch Janovský from Janovice († 1737), who had acquired Woselecz from Vitanovský a year earlier. 1697 bought Janovský the manorial Stary Smolivec and united them with Woselecz. The castle was given its current form in 1705 as part of a major renovation by the builder Giacomo Antonio de Maggi . The complex was completed in 1730, and a castle chapel with a representation of St. John of Nepomuk belongs as a ceiling fresco and a turret. The inner courtyard is designed with arcades. In 1749 a castle brewery was established.

Oselce Castle is surrounded by an English landscape park, which also houses a multi-storey baroque granary.

In 1807 Anton Zürchauer acquired the rule from František Dominik Janovský von Janovice. One year later, Philipp Anton Freiherr von Bibra from Zurich sold it , who bought it on behalf of his son-in-law Clemens Wenzel von Boos zu Waldeck and Montfort. Via his wife Johanna Carolina Thekla Freiin von Bibra, it came to her son Franz Anton von Boos zu Waldeck in 1832 , who united the possessions of Wosseletz and Laschan Desfours .

In 1887 Victor von Boos zu Waldeck inherited the property. In the same year he parted with the goods in Smolivec and sold the Starý Smolivec Castle, including the associated 350 hectares of forest and 140 hectares of arable land, to Count Karl von Lilgenau in Schliisselburg .

In the 1890s, Wosseletz Castle became a place of literature and music. The lord of the castle, Victor von Boos zu Waldeck, acted as a patron and worked as a translator and composer himself. One of his best-known works is an intonation of the poem Mornings I get up and ask by Heinrich Heine . Guests at Schloss Wosseletz were u. a. Jaroslav Vrchlický , Josef Václav Sládek , Josef Svatopluk Machar , Václav Talich , Oskar Nedbal , Josef Suk and Adolf Hofmeister .

In 1910, the property belonging to the castle had an area of ​​912 hectares. After the Second World War, the property of Count Boos zu Waldeck, who lived in the castle until 1948, was expropriated.

Today the castle serves as an agricultural vocational school, the chapel is accessible. The interior design of the castle was modernized and the facades were renovated in 1990/91.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 4.6 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 24.1 ″  E