Sychrov Castle

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Sychrov Castle
Court of honor
Eastern facade
Orangery
Arthur Castle in the palace gardens

The Sychrov Castle (German Sichrow ) is located in Sychrov , eight kilometers northwest of the town of Turnov in Okres Liberec , Czech Republic . It is an imposing testimony to a historicist castle building in Northern Bohemia .

history

Up until the first quarter of the 19th century, the property was a small two-story country palace, built in 1690 in the Baroque style . At that time it was owned by the Lamotte von Frintropp knights.

In 1820 Prince Karl Alain Rohan acquired it from a Comtesse de la Motte and had the house expanded and enlarged over a period of fifteen years. Sychrov received a bel étage , two towers and Biedermeier salons, built by local and French architects. 1820 bought the noble Rohan also an associated basic rule (Fideikommißherrschaft in Swinjan and Lomnitz) by the Lords of Waldstein . Soon afterwards, Prince Charles Alain Gabriel de Rohan had the former baroque building added one floor and additional buildings added.

From 1847 to 1862 there were significant changes under Camil Josef I. Rohan in the years when the castle was completely redesigned after a fire and received today's neo-Gothic appearance in the style of a large English country estate. The architects Bernhard Grueber and his successor Josef Provot provided the designs . There are more than forty lavishly furnished halls and rooms in the castle. The Rohan family gathered a very extensive stock of furniture in the castle.

The portraits are mostly portraits of family members, French nobles and kings. This gallery once had 230 images. It was the ancestral gallery of the Rohan, who fled France in 1789 and, by a lucky coincidence, were able to take the pictures with them when they fled France. An Antonín Dvořák Museum has been set up in some of the rooms . The composer wrote a symphony at the castle.

In 1866, Sychrov was at the center of European history. In July, in the days of the Battle of Königgrätz , Kaiser Wilhelm I and Prince Bismarck visited the castle. In November, Emperor Franz Joseph stayed on Sychrov to visit the battlefields of 1866.

The last owner of the estate was Alain Fürst Rohan until the end of the Second World War in May 1945.

The palace is a tourist attraction and it is often used as a location in films, including the American feature film, The Beautician and the Beast (The Beautician and the Beast) .

A music festival is held there every year in honor of the composer Dvořák.

Lived and worked at Sychrov Castle

  • Camille Fürst Rohan (* 1800 in Brussels, died 1892 at Sychrov Castle), officer in the imperial army.
  • Alain Benjamin Arthur Prince von Rohan (* 1853 in Budapest, died 1914 in Prague), landowner and politician, 1906 sponsor of the Reichenberg industrial exhibition, 1908 knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
  • Alain Anton Josef Fürst von Rohan (* 1893 at Sychrov Castle, died 1976 in Vienna) Dr. jur. Large landowner, administrator of family estates in Northern Bohemia until 1945. Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
  • The art historian and writer Johanna von Herzogenberg was born at the castle.

literature

  • Hans Ulrich Engel: Castles and palaces in Bohemia. Based on old templates, 2nd edition 1978, Weidlich Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3 8035 8013 7 , p. 20 Sichrow, illustration p. 180
  • Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmut Slapnicka: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. III, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 , p. 497 Rohan, French princely family, namesake at Sychrov Castle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sychrov Castle invites you to visit all year round . In: Český ráj . Retrieved February 24, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '34.7 "  N , 15 ° 5' 20.2"  E