Litenčice
- Clasificación
- Château
- País
- Chequia
- Región
- Kroměříž
- Dirección
- Litenčice 1, 768 13, Litenčic
The Litenčice chateau stands in the village of the same name approximately 20 km south-west of Kroměříž. The valuable complex of the four-winged two-storey chateau, produced through Renaissance, Baroque, and Classicist rebuildings of a Gothic manor, has been a listed monument since 1958. The manor at Litenčice is first mentioned only in 1437, when Pavlík of Pržné transferred it to Arkléb of Kunkovice and Zástřizl. The Zástřizl family held the estate until 1509, and between 1509 and 1554 the Kropáč of Nevědomí family. During this period a Gothic-Renaissance so-called small chateau was built in the northern part of the castle courtyard. In the 17th century a series of owners succeeded one another here, including the Archbishop of Esztergom Péter Pázmány of Panasa, under whom the late-medieval manor was rebuilt as a Baroque chateau in 1667. The last descendant of the Thonsern family, František Josef, bequeathed the estate to his nephew František Maxmilián Podstatský. In the last third of the 18th century Vilém František Podstatský remodelled the chateau's interior and built the new main façade with its grand staircase. The Podstatský-Thonsern family held the Litenčice estate until 1948. In 1948 the property passed to state ownership and the chateau was adapted as an agricultural school. Further deterioration was contributed by the Technical Museum in Brno, which had its depository there and neglected the maintenance of the building. In restitution in 1993 the dilapidated chateau was returned to Mrs Marie Podstatzká-Thornsen, who together with her son Ing. Richard Podstatský commenced a demanding reconstruction of the entire complex. The chateau is not accessible to the public. Around it spreads a chateau park that has its charm in every season; those interested in hunting may for a fee try individual culling of roe deer and wild boar.
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