Zruc nad Sázavou (Central Bohemia)
N 49° 44.667 E 015° 06.085
33U E 507306 N 5510223
Depicted beautiful and recently reconstructed Chateau Zruc houses not only the Municipal office (Town hall), but also representative spaces, information centre and museum of small town Zruc nad Sázavou...
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Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 09/29/2014
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Depicted beautiful and recently reconstructed Chateau Zruc houses not only the Municipal office (Town hall), but also representative spaces, information centre and museum of small town Zruc nad Sázavou.
The building of Chateau Zruc has long and interesting history. The first castle was built at this site probably in the end of the 12th century. But our knowledge about architecture of the old Romanesque and Gothic castle are sparse - you can find only remains of Gothic fortification it the park surrounding the Chateau. More information we have about the later development of the site - in the 16th century was castle rebuilt into Renaissance chateau by owners of Zruc demesne at that time - the Kalenic family (Kalenicové). Their coat of arms, two connected silver buffalo horns in the red field, was adopted by the town. Later, the Baroque square chateau is documented in 1749, when Zruc was owned by Löwenthals. In the 19th century by fire devastated (1781) Zruc Chateau changed owners several times and the present three-winged building with distinctive prismatic clock tower is a result of the principal neo-Gothic reconstruction from 1891. It was financed by Chateau' last private owners - noble family Schebek.
Zruc nad Sázavou is a small town (4 906 inhabitants) in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, in the Kutná Hora District. [wiki]