Lobeč
- Classification
- Château
- Country
- Czechia
- Region
- Mělník
- Address
- Lobeč 1, 277 36, Lobeč
The Baroque chateau at Lobeč stands in the village of the same name, approximately 25 km north-west of Mladá Boleslav. The chateau complex with its farm and park has been an immovable cultural monument since 1966. The first documented owner of the estate is Přísnobor of Lobeč, who together with his brother donated property at Lobeč to his friend Jindřich of Mutěnice in 1323. The first reliable record of a manor at Lobeč dates only from 1513, when Záviš Harasova sold a farm and a ruined manor to Johanka of Víska, the wife of Jan Lobečský of Lobeč. The descendants of Johanka and Jan Lobečský of Lobeč held Lobeč throughout the 16th century, and after the death of Jindřich Lobečský of Lobeč in 1601 the estate was purchased by Barbora Vartemberková, née Lobkowicz. During the post-White-Mountain confiscations Lobeč passed in 1623 to the possession of Albrecht of Wallenstein. As a reward for participation in Wallenstein's assassination, the estate of Mšeno with Lobeč was assigned in 1638 to Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Geraldini. The new owner built a chateau at Lobeč sometime in the mid-17th century, which served as his seat until the close of the 17th century, when through the marriage of Geraldini's daughter Marie Klára Lobeč passed into the possession of the Věžník of Věžník family. In 1724 Jan Ignác Věžník remodelled the Lobeč chateau in the Baroque style, essentially as it has been preserved to this day. In 1828 Lobeč was purchased by the Prague Vaněk family, from whom Václav Vaněk (1798–1872) served as mayor of Prague. During their ownership, alterations to the chateau took place in 1833. In 1913 the then owner Helena Kreutzerová had the interior spaces of the chateau remodelled. From her the estate with the chateau was purchased in 1928 by Josef Šimonek (1862–1934), director-general of the Škoda Works in Pilsen. The chateau belonged to his descendants until 1948, when it was nationalised. After 1948 the chateau served first for the needs of a state farm, later as a rehabilitation clinic of the psychiatric department of the Prague faculty hospital at Karlovo náměstí. The complex was returned in restitution to the Šimonek family in 1991, and the chateau, which underwent an extensive reconstruction, today serves as a pension. A tended park is situated to the west of the chateau.
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