Uherčice Castle

View from the east

Uherčice Castle

The Uherčice Castle ( Hungarian Ungarschitz) is located in Uherčice u Znojma in Okres Znojmo in South Moravia ( Czech Republic ).

history

Leopold Kraiger von Kraigk had a late Gothic fortress built around 1493, the square floor plan of which can still be seen in the eastern part of the castle, the so-called "old castle". Inspired by his experiences during a trip to Italy, Leopold's nephew Wenzel Kraiger von Kraigk († 1566) converted the Ungarschitzer Feste into a Renaissance castle. Wolf Streun von Schwarzenau acquired the castle as early as 1562, which he had expanded into a representative domicile.

The Renaissance castle was expropriated in 1945 by means of the Beneš decrees and then used as a barracks and women's prison. In the years after 2000 the building was in a critical condition, from 2005 renovation work took place, with the castle construction site being accessible from April to October.

There was a tower above the gate that collapsed
Chapel: stucco decoration by Baldassare Fontana
Stucco decoration in Uherčice Castle by Baldassare Fontana

literature

Alena Skrabanek: Architecture of the renaissance castle Ungarschitz / Uherčice in South Moravia. Diploma thesis, Vienna 2008, 126 pages ( PDF on core.ac.uk).
Castles, pens and palaces. Regions Waldviertel, Danube Basin, South Bohemia, Vysočina, South Moravia. ISBN 978-3-9502262-2-5 , p. 110 f.

Web links

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

Uherčice Castle. Official Web Presentation. In: zamek-uhercice.cz (English).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Jiří Kacetl, Petr Lazárek, David Molík: Hrady a zámky moravsko-rakouského Podyjí. Castles and chateaus of the Austro-Moravian Thaya Valley. Volume “slovem / in Wort”, South Moravian Museum in Znojmo in cooperation with the Retz City Museum, Znojmo 2013, ISBN 978-80-86974-12-5 , pp. 38–40 ( PDF on muzeumznojmo.cz; volume “obrazem / in Image ", p. 9 ).

48.914805555556 15.63375Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '53.3 " N , 15 ° 38' 1.5" E

[Kacetl-1] Jiří Kacetl, Petr Lazárek, David Molík: Hrady a zámky moravsko-rakouského Podyjí. Castles and chateaus of the Austro-Moravian Thaya Valley. Volume “slovem / in Wort”, South Moravian Museum in Znojmo in cooperation with the Retz City Museum, Znojmo 2013, ISBN 978-80-86974-12-5 , pp. 38–40 ( PDF on muzeumznojmo.cz; volume “obrazem / in Image ", p. 9 ).