Hluboš
- Clasificación
- Château
- País
- Chequia
- Dirección
- Hluboš 1, 262 22 Hluboš
Hluboš Chateau, situated 8 km north of Příbram, is an immovable cultural monument whose history reaches back to the 14th century (the first mention of the village dates from 1355). The original Gothic manor, explicitly documented from 1502, belonged to members of the lesser nobility — for example Jan Karel of Svárov — and after the White Mountain confiscations to Karel Vtelenský of Vtelno, the Bechyně of Lažany family, and later to Jan Humpreht Račín of Račín, who consolidated the estate. A fundamental turning point in the architectural development of Hluboš came in the 1770s, when the estate was owned by Johann Anton Hochberg of Hennersdorf. He had the old Gothic-Renaissance manor demolished to its foundations (only the Renaissance cellars were preserved) and on its site erected a large late Baroque chateau of rectangular plan with two projecting lateral wings and a Chapel of the Holy Cross. His son Franz Anton Hochberg founded in 1806 on the estate a private botanical garden and arboretum with a range of valuable trees previously unknown in Europe. Hochberg's extensive expenditures, however, destabilised him financially, and in 1815 he received permission to sell the estate by lottery. After a brief interlude during which it was owned by the Viennese burgher Jakub Hell, it was acquired by Prince Otto Viktor Schönburg-Waldenburg. In 1872 the estate was purchased by Prince Öttingen-Wallerstein, during whose ownership the chateau acquired its present architectural form. The original Baroque mass was preserved, but the facades were given a new Neo-Renaissance treatment with rustication and pilasters, and an English landscape park was laid out. The most celebrated period followed the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic. The Öttingens leased the chateau to the Presidential Office, and in 1920–1921 President T. G. Masaryk had his first summer residence here. In 1925 Hluboš was acquired by the Příbram industrialist Josef Kolařík, whose family owned the chateau until its nationalisation in 1950. During the Communist era the chateau successively housed the army, accommodation for uranium mine workers, and various schools, leading to the devastation and looting of the interiors. In 1994 the building was returned in restitution to the descendants of Josef Kolařík, who commenced a restoration and opened an exhibition devoted to T. G. Masaryk. The chateau closed in 2010, however, and after several changes of owner it is currently owned by the company CHATEAU MASARYK.
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