Ploskovice Castle

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Ploskovice Castle - front view
Ploskovice chateau - park view
Side view from the park side
Grotto entrance

Ploskovice Castle (German Ploschkowitz ) is located in Ploskovice , Okres Litoměřice in the north of the Czech Republic .

history

Ploschkowitz Castle stands on the site of a former commander who was given to the Order of St. John by the noble Hroznata in 1188 , and it remained in their possession until the Hussite Wars . In 1436 the commander received the former Hussite captain Jakubek von Wřesowitz , whose descendants fortified it as a castle and named themselves after Ploschkowitz. After a peasant rebellion against Adam Ploschkovsky von Drahonitz, the peasants submitted to the knight Dalibor von Kozojedy , who was sentenced to death in 1498. Bedřich Smetana used his fate as a template for the libretto for the opera Dalibor .

Although there were frequent changes of ownership in the 16th century, the castle was converted into a palace between 1545 and 1575. In the Thirty Years' War several times burned down, it was the Count Schlick renovated, but had to Duke Henry of already 1,663 Saxony-Lauenburg be sold. His daughter Anna Maria Franziska , who was married to Gian Gastone de 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany for the second time , had a summer residence built next to the old castle, which was demolished in 1816. The plans are probably made by Octavio Broggio .

By inheritance, Ploschkowitz came to the Wittelsbach Elector of Palatinate Bavaria and Zweibrücken, Maximilian Josef IV , who, however, had to renounce Ploschkowitz in favor of the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand of Salzburg after Bavaria was elevated to kingdom in 1806 . He became Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1813, Emperor of Austria as Ferdinand I of Habsburg in 1835 and King of Bohemia in 1836 . After his abdication in 1848, he chose Ploschkowitz as his summer residence, which his nephew, Emperor Franz Joseph I , inherited after his death in 1875 .

1918 Ploschkowitz was the newly established Czechoslovak state confiscated and used as the residence of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. From April 11, 1940, it housed the Sudetenland National Political Education Institute . After 1945 it was opened to the public as a museum.

Inside, there are Rococo - stucco work of Václav Levý and M. Effenberger and murals of important artist of Bohemian romance Josef Navrátil. The castle has valuable historical furniture, pictures and porcelain as well as cups and glasses from the Nový Bor glassworks. Several fountains and an artificial grotto adorn the terrace garden.

The castle was the location for the video for Celine Dion's version of It's All Coming Back to Me Now in 1995 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Ploskovice Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  N , 14 ° 11 ′ 45 ″  E