Vrchotovy Janovice

Vrchotovy Janovice is a municipality and market town with a romantic castle surrounded by a large park in Benešov District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

Vrchotovy Janovice
Market town
Castle
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Vrchotovy Janovice
Location in the Czech Republic
Coordinates: 49°41′N 14°36′E
Country Czech Republic
RegionCentral Bohemian Region
DistrictBenešov District
Area
 • Total9.6 sq mi (24.9. km2)
Elevation
1,470 ft (448 m)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total936
 • Density97/sq mi (38/km2)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Castle

The castle was founded in the Middle Ages in about 1350 as aGothic water fortress. Then it was rebuilt in a Renaissance and Baroque style until 1760. Prague architect Josef Mocker rebuilt it after 1879 in Neo-Gothic style, and Josef Zasche further rebuilt it around 1910 for the family of Baron Karel Boromejský Jan Ludvík Nádherný of Borutín (1849–1895), his wife Amalie Klein von Wisenberg (1854-1910) and their three children Karel, Jan and Sidonie.

The last owner of the chateau was their daughter, Baroness Sidonie Nádherná, unconventional emancipated woman, a patron and organizer of cultural life. She hosted friends including Rainer Maria Rilke, Karl Kraus and Czech painter Max Švabinský.

In 1988 the National Museum in Prague opened a permanent exhibition at the castle about the Czech National Revival cultural movement of the 19th century.

People
  • Entry to the castle
  • View from the open window on the inside of the castel in Vrchotovy Janovice in the Czech Republic

References
  • This article was initially translated from the Czech Wikipedia.
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