Vysoký Hrádek Castle
The Vysoký Hrádek Castle (German High-Hradek , even high-Hradek ) is a Renaissance -Schloss in the region of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic . It is located in the municipality of Temelín at the northeast corner of the area of the Temelín nuclear power plant and has housed the information center of the nuclear power plant since 1997.
geography
Vysoký Hrádek is located in the southern foothills of the Písecké hory ( Písek Mountains ) on the road II / 105 between Týn nad Vltavou and Hluboká nad Vltavou . It belongs to the cadastre Březí u Týna nad Vltavou. Křtěnov is located northwest of the chateau.
Building
The single-storey, two-winged building with buttresses is surrounded to the north by a park with two ponds. Both wings are connected by a two-story, squat gate tower. Above the portal is the coat of arms of Malovec of Malovice with the inscription WM (Wenceslaus Malowetz) and the year 1805.
history
The owners of the Hrádek, Knín and Býšov farms were the Vladiken von Březí in the 14th century . During this time the courtyard was expanded into a fortress. The first written mention of the fortress came in 1367, when after the death of Albert von Březí the inheritance was divided between his three sons Svatomír, Smil and Bušek, with Svatomír receiving the Hrádek fortress. After the Vladiken von Březí family died out after the Hussite Wars , the Vladiken von Býšov who were related to them inherited the Hrádek estate. Oldřich von Býšov in 1440 and Jindřich von Býšov between 1507 and 1517, who occasionally also used the title of Březí , are the owners . In 1520 Johann and Nikolaus Rendl von Uschau acquired the Hradek estate. They sold it to Jan Nebřehovský von Nebřehovice in 1526. In 1556 Zikmund Malovec from Malovice bought the manor from Ondřej Nebřehovský from Nebřehovice on Pyšely . Under Václav Malovec Liběšický on Chvalešovice, the fortress was converted into a Renaissance chateau at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1805 Václav Malovec, who had inherited Vysoký Hrádek in 1790, had the chateau remodeled. Franz Malowetz von Cheynow and Winterberg sold the estate on January 15, 1825 to Josef Hirsch and his wife Barbara, née Baroness Lipowsky.
In 1840 the Hohen-Hradek , also Hoch-Hradek or Hradek-Březy estate comprised a usable area of 1570 yoke 352 square fathoms and had 759 predominantly Czech-speaking inhabitants, including 3 Israelite families. The rulership ran a farm in Březy, the Podhay farm was emphyteutized. The Great Forest and the Zapowědey Forest belonged to the estate, which formed a forest district that became a branch church of St. Prokop in Křtěnow parish villages Březy ( Březí u Týna nad Vltavou ), Křtěnow ( Křtěnov ) and Podhay ( Podhájí ) as well as a house from Temelinetz ( Temelínec ). In the castle were one of the St. Anna chapel and the office of the economic office. Until the middle of the 19th century, Hohen-Hradek was always a land-use estate.
In 1882 Josef Hirsch the Elder sold J. the Hohenhradek estate for 148,000 guilders to Václav and Anežka Wenzel. In 1894 they sold the 328 hectare estate with a farm and the distillery to Josef Sailer. The next owners were the Kovář family from 1914, after which the owners changed in quick succession from 1926. In 1933 the couple Václav and Jindřiška Diviš bought the estate. In the course of the land reform of 1948, Jindřiška Divišová was expropriated and the estate was nationalized. During the communist rule, the castle and the park were devastated by the JZD . Eventually it was struck off the list of historical monuments. After the JZD moved out in connection with the dissolution of the villages of Temelínec, Březí and Křtěnov for the construction of the Temelín nuclear power plant, the chateau served as a factory kitchen, office and kindergarten from 1986. Between 1987 and 1989 the roof was re-covered and further repairs were carried out by monument conservationists with the aim of using the castle as a depot for the Týn nad Vltavou Municipal Museum . These plans were abandoned because of the frequent damage caused by vandalism.
After the Velvet Revolution, Vysoký Hrádek returned to the Diviš family in restitution. From this, the ČEZ bought the ruinous castle in 1994 and renovated it. Since 1997 the Information Center of the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant has been located there ( Informační centrum Jaderné elektrárny Temelín ). The park is open to the public from April to October.
Information center of the Temelín nuclear power plant
The Informační centrum Jaderné elektrárny Temelín (IC JETE) was established in 1991 by the operator of the nuclear power plant ČEZ as to inform the public about the power plant and about nuclear power, energy technology and physics. In 1997 the IC JETE moved to the Vysoký Hrádek Castle. A cinema and lecture hall, in which educational films are shown, and a cloud chamber were set up on the first floor. There is also a small exhibition on the history of the castle.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 8 Prachiner Circle, 1840, pp. 422-425
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Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '52.1 " N , 14 ° 23' 9.6" E