Jetřichovice Castle in Central Bohemia

The original castle in Jetřichovice (part of the town of Sedlec-Prčice, Central Bohemia Region) was initially turned into a Baroque chateau typical of the period in the mid-16th century, after the Mitrovský family acquired the estate.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the chateau was acquired by the Prague lawyer, university director and composer Jan Nepomuk Kaňka, who also made a name for himself as a legal advisor to Ludwig van Beethoven, whom he met at the end of the 18th century.

From 1857, the old castle was significantly enlarged under his signature. It received an irregular extension in the English neo-Gothic style with an octagonal tower and an English landscape park.

Jetřichovice is also the burial place of Kaňka, who died here in 1865.

The chateau was in poor condition shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. A Prague architect bought the castle in 1939, renovated it and gave it another brief period of splendour. Jetřichovice survived the Second World War without damage and served as a boarding school for decades from 1950.

Since 2006 it has no longer been used. The interior of the old baroque building has been extensively altered due to its use as a boarding school, while the younger part of the complex still retains elements from the building period, including historic windows and doors as well as interiors, some of which are richly decorated.

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