Pardubice Castle
The Pardubice Castle (German Pardubice ) is located in the city of the same name Pardubice in the Czech Republic .
history
Between 1332 and 1340 the then landlord Ernst von Hostin ( Arnošt z Hostýně ) founded a town after which his sons von Pardubitz were named. The eldest son Ernst von Pardubitz (1297-1364) was the first archbishop of Prague. From the end of the 14th century, the town's owners changed several times, and from 1490 it was owned by the von Pernštejn family , who had the large castle built. Jaroslav von Pernstein had to sell the town and castle to Emperor Ferdinand I in 1560 , from which time Pardubice was a royal town.
The castle stands on the site of an original manor, which was probably built at the end of the 13th century. In the following century this was converted into a moated castle. During the reign of Wilhelm II von Pernstein , it was rebuilt in the late Gothic style and expanded with an east wing. His son Adalbert von Pernstein continued the renovation and redesign in the early Renaissance style . In 1574–1579, the Italian master builder Ulrico Aostalli built a hall on the second floor of the north wing, restored the palace facade , which was decorated with sgraffiti , and added the Renaissance gable. The palace complex, built as a fortress, survived the Thirty Years War without being captured. The chateau in Pardubice is a rare example of the smooth transition from a castle building to a chateau complex. Fragments of earlier wall paintings from the early Renaissance can be seen in three knights' halls of the south wing . The painting from the Old Testament saga of Samson and Dellilah in the Vojtěch Hall dates from 1532. It is one of the oldest known Renaissance wall paintings in Bohemia . The castle serves as a museum and gallery. The palace complex adjoins the historic city center, which is well worth seeing.
In 2010 the Pardubice Castle was declared a National Cultural Monument of the Czech Republic.
Web links
- Homepage (Czech)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 33032 / 6-1936 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 27.8 ″ N , 15 ° 46 ′ 39.6 ″ E