Location
Prague – 1 hour 30 minutes
Plzen – 30 minutes
Klatovy – 10 minutes
Munich – 3 hours
Overview
Gloriette
- Built in 1765.
- Style: Baroque.
- Cultural heritage: 18th-century frescoes, presumably by the hand of the court architect of Bohemia, the main fortifier of Prague – Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer.
- Historical value: the place where Frantisek Palacky spent time writing and and where his wedding with Tereza Mechurova took place in 1827.
- Listed building. Protected by the National Heritage Organisation.
- Size: 55 m2 built up, 137 m2 total.
- Was used as a northern entrance to the park and as a pavilion for relaxation with panoramic 360 view.
Chateau
- Built in XIV century as a fortress, in XVIII century rebuild as a manor house.
- Style: the main architecture is baroque, the facade was rebuilt in the empire style in 1818.
- Legacy: the place where Frantisek Palacky wrote two volumes of “The History of the Czech Nation in Bohemia and Moravia”.
- Listed building. Protected by the National Heritage Organisation
- Size: 1400 m2.
Garden
- Protected by the National Heritage Organisation
- Size: 2.4 hectares
- 192 trees
- Highest tree in the garden: lime tree – 32 metres high
Pond
- Size: 555 m2
- Located in the southern part of the garden
- Current state: completely dried up
Future purpose:
A natural swimming pond and “A” Pier – Sunday language school for local children.
More about the project
Map of the grounds
