Neulust castle ruins

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Neulust castle ruins
Neulust castle ruins

The Neulust castle ruins , also called Theresienlust , is a former hunting lodge in the municipality of Uhersko in the Czech Republic.

location

The Neulust ruin, surrounded by an overgrown park, is located one and a half kilometers north of Uhersko on a hilltop (261 m nm) on the road to Trusnov . To the northeast is the Lodrant pond, and to the southeast is the former Trusnov pheasantry and zoo. The Hegerhaus Najlust stands at the south-western foot.

investment

The Jagdschlösschen Neulust was a rococo-style two-story tower-like building with an octagonal floor plan and shingle roof and four side wings. There was a hall on the first and second floors of the main building. A kitchen was housed in one of the side wings and two rooms each in the other three. The castle was surrounded by a small French park .

Today only remains of the walls and the vaulted cellars are preserved.

history

The hunting lodge was used in 1790 by the owner of the Chraustowitz estate , Philipp Graf Kinsky, for his sister Therese. Poniatowski built according to their ideas and named Theresienlust in her honor . Kinsky used the little castle , which is six kilometers away from his country residence, Chraustowitz Castle at Trusnower Tiergarten in his otherwise poorly forested dominion, for his hunts. A few houses were built below the castle hill at the beginning of the 19th century. Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis , who bought the Chraustowitz estate from Kinsky in 1823, showed little interest in the hunting lodge and let it fall into disrepair. In 1835, the one- shift Neulust in the Chrudim district consisted of the Neulust or Theresienlust pleasure palace and four other houses.

In the middle of the 19th century, a side wing collapsed. In 1906 the main building and the kitchen wing were invaded.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, p. 111

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 5.1 ″  N , 16 ° 1 ′ 39.7 ″  E