Schönborn - Schönborn Palace (Prague)
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Depicted nice CoA of counts of Schönborn, former owners of the Schönborn Palace (nowadays US Embassy), you can find on palace front facade above its main entrance...
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/13/2013
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Depicted nice CoA of counts of Schönborn, former owners of the Schönborn Palace (nowadays US Embassy), you can find on palace front facade above its main entrance.
The Baroque Schoenborn Palace is the current home of the United States Embassy to the Czech Republic. Rudolph von Colloredo built the present palace between 1643-1656. The palace was inherited by the Schönborn family, from whom it took its present name.
The House of Schönborn is a noble and mediatised former sovereign princely family from the former Holy Roman Empire. Several members of the family have held high offices of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire over the course of centuries, including as Bishops, Prince-Bishops, Cardinals and Prince-Electors. In addition to several family members having been elected monarchs of ecclesiastical principalities—the Electorate of Mainz, the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, the Prince-Bishopric of Worms, the Prince-Bishopric of Speyer, the Electorate of Trier, and the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg—the family possessed a fiefdom in Franconia that held imperial immediacy, and was thus a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, the state of Schönborn. [wiki]