Stern Castle (Prague)
The Stern Castle ( Czech Letohrádek Hvězda ) is located on the White Mountain in Prague . The hunting lodge has a six-pointed star as a floor plan, from which it owes its name.
The park laid out on the White Mountain by the Bohemian King and later Emperor Ferdinand I in 1530 was formerly used as a game reserve. To make hunting easier, a wall was built around the park and the hunting lodge between 1541 and 1563.
The pleasure palace Stern was built in 1555/1558 by the Italian builders Giovanni Maria Aostalli and Giovanni Lucchese as well as Bonifaz Wohlmut (1505–1579) based on a plan drawn up by Archduke Ferdinand of Austria . From the outside, the two-storey building with a folding roof does not look very conspicuous, but the floor plan is unusual and makes Schloss Stern one of the highlights of Renaissance palace construction in Europe.
It consists of equilateral triangles set inside one another, which form a six-pointed star, which gave the castle its name. Diamond-shaped halls lie in five star points, the stairwell in the sixth. The rooms, which are decorated with stucco ceilings , are separated by similarly decorated corridors that meet in a twelve- sided central room .
The architect Philipp Baum published a work in several volumes about the renovation in 1875 .
Today the state-owned castle is open to the public and houses an exhibition about the Battle of White Mountain .
Web links
- History of the Stern Castle on the owner's website Památník národního písemnictví (Czech)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bonifaz Wohlmut , on the Structurae website.
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 19 ′ 34 ″ E