Michna Summer Palace
The Michna Summer Palace (Czech: Michnův letohrádek ) is a baroque palace in the New Town of Prague .
history
The palace was built between 1712 and 1720 according to plans by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer after his return from Vienna as his first independent building in Prague and its style was influenced by the Viennese architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt . The client was Johann Wenzel (Jan Vaclav) Michna von Vacínov (* around 1665, † 1721), the son of Baron Wilhelm Wenzel Franz Michna von Weitzenau (1637–1684) and his wife Elisabeth Polyxena, née Mac Enis von Atter and Iveagh, daughter of a cavalry officer from the Irish nobility.
The palace was sold in 1729 by Johann's widow Marie Charlotte, a born Freiin von Wopping zu Karpfheim, to Karl Josef Desfours in Russia after the early death of her son Ferdinand Karl . In 1843 it became the property of the City of Prague , which used it for various educational programs and rented it out for events.
The baroque garden was transformed into an English park in 1793 . The sculptures are by Matthias Bernhard Braun (Matyáš Bernard Braun).
This is where the first scales were played on Prague floor, and this was the official fencing floor of the Prague Couleurs for a long time. Until 1880 it was the home of the Corps Albia Prague.
The building is also known as Villa Amerika , after a restaurant that was temporarily housed in it. Today the Antonín Dvořák Museum, established in 1932, is located there.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Leopold Klima: The Prague Student Novel in Student Union and Youth Movement in the Sudetenland 1878-1938 , p. 78; Caption from picture 20
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 25.34 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 37.07" E