Osek

Classification

Château

Country

Czechia

Region

Rokycany

Address

338 21 Osek u Rokycan

Osek is a Baroque chateau that originated from the rebuilding of an earlier manor. It stands in the centre of the village of Osek, 4 km north of Rokycany, and has been protected as a cultural monument since 1964. The chateau stands in the middle of the former state farm complex. It is in overall terms a highly valuable object of a rural manorial seat with a complex building history and a pronounced Renaissance and Baroque constructional phase. The earliest manorial seat at Osek perhaps already existed under Budivoj, mentioned in 1240. Nothing further is known of its appearance or location. The first direct record of the manor there dates only from 1572. It stood at the north-eastern corner of the chateau, where part of it has survived to this day. In the second half of the 16th century the manor was extended and given a Renaissance remodelling. The Baroque reconstruction of the chateau took place around 1689 under Přibyslav Malovec of Chýnov. In 1681 Ferdinand Leopold Nostic acquired the estate and chateau through marriage and had a three-storey tower added to the chateau (around 1689). The Nostic family owned the chateau until 1734, after which it was in the possession of the Šternberk family. It passed through several further owners and eventually belonged to the Colloredo-Mansfeld family of Zbiroh. When the land reform of the Colloredo-Mansfeld estate was carried out between 1922 and 1925, a so-called residual estate was created at Osek, which was purchased in 1935 by Jan Kozel. After the war the chateau was nationalised, all its furnishings removed to an unknown destination, and the chateau complex adapted for the needs of the local state farm as cowsheds and storehouses. Part of the chateau was converted into apartments. The original owners, to whom the chateau was returned in restitution, gradually restored the completely devastated building and expended great effort on the rehabilitation of the devastated parts, including the gate with its articulated Baroque gable and the park, which had previously been used for potato cultivation. Restorations are being continued by the current owner of the chateau, Mrs Jana Pěnkavová. The chateau is not open to the public.

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