Velké Březno Castle
The Velké Březno Castle is located in Velké Březno (German Großpriesen ) in Okres Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic .
history
The palace was built from 1842 to 1854 according to plans by the Viennese architect Ludwig Förster for Count Karl Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin, the highest-ranking administrative officer and supreme burgrave of the Kingdom of Bohemia, in Empire style on a ridge above the Elbe valley. Chotek used the comparatively small castle as a retirement home since 1843. After his death in 1868 it came to his son Count Karl Chotek von Chotkow (1822-1883), owner of the lordship of Groß Priesen and Zahorzan, married to Olga von Moltke , who carried out the reconstruction of the castle in Groß Priesen in the neo-Renaissance style according to plans by the Dresdener Architect E. Fleischer commissioned. Their daughter Adelaide (Ada) Countess von Chotek († 1939) took over the inheritance, but could not continue the expansion as planned due to lack of funds. Only the middle part of the castle was redesigned in the neo-renaissance style. Ada Countess von Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin was expropriated in a land reform of Czechoslovakia after the end of the First World War in 1919 , she fell under the nobility annulment law and entered a monastery as a religious.
The old castle with a mansard roof and turret turret is located in the direction of the Elbaue, was used as a retirement home for a long time and is now privately owned and therefore not accessible.
Velké Březno is a typical small aristocratic seat and one of the youngest feudal buildings in Bohemia . It survived the Second World War undamaged and is now a museum. The complex, largely preserved with its interior, shows an exhibition on the life and work of the Bohemian noble family of the Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin , their best-known representative Sophie Chotek von Chotkowa Duchess von Hohenberg , the morganatic wife of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke who was murdered with her in 1914 Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este is. The castle has a landscape park with an arboretum made of precious woods .
literature
- Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families . Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, Chotek III. Line page 59, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2
Web links
- Státní zámek Velké Březno (Czech) , with a German PDF file (176 kB) In the footsteps of the Chotek family. (PDF; 180 kB)
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 44.8 " N , 14 ° 8 ′ 18.8" E