Lomnice

Clasificación

Château

País

Chequia

Región

Brno-venkov

Dirección

Zámek, nám. Palackého 35, 679 23 Lomnice

Lomnice Chateau, an originally Gothic castle, stands in the middle of a park to the east of the main square of the market town of the same name. The chateau complex forms an exceptionally valuable ensemble of a manorial seat, comprising an early Gothic castle, a late Gothic chapel, Renaissance arcades, and Baroque and Neo-Gothic elements. It has been protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic since 1964. The predecessor of the Lomnice chateau was an early Gothic castle, the earliest known holder of which was Oldřich of Lomnice, recorded in 1265. After the extinction of the lords of Lomnice the estate passed in 1566 to Jan the Elder of Žerotín. In 1589 Karel the Elder of Žerotín sold the Lomnice estate to Oldřich of Kounic, from whom Fridrich of Kounic — a leading representative of the Moravian estates and an active participant in the Estates' Uprising of 1618–1620 — inherited Lomnice. After the defeat of the uprising in 1620, Fridrich of Kounic was imprisoned and the estate was confiscated. After a brief period when the estate was owned by the Breuner and Mansfeld families, the Moravian provincial captain Count Gabriel Serényi purchased the Lomnice estate in 1662, and in 1664 it was inherited by Count František Gabriel Serényi, under whom an extensive reconstruction of the Renaissance chateau took place and the interior was adapted to plans by the Brno master builder Jan Křtitel Erne. The chateau reached its greatest prosperity after 1700, when the owner of the Lomnice estate was Antonín Amatus Serényi. During this period the chateau was generously rebuilt and extended. The entrance to the chateau was adorned with a Renaissance portal transferred here from the Serényi town palace in Brno. Further construction work at the chateau took place in the second half of the 18th century, when Lomnice was owned by Count Vincenc Serényi (1751–1810), an Enlightenment-period aristocrat and the founder of the Luhačovice spa. In addition to the chateau reconstruction, the estate's manor farm, brewery, and school were given their form. Alois Serényi (1812–1893) together with his wife, Countess Ernestina Žerotínová, substantially modernised Lomnice Chateau and founded the present cemetery. The park was transformed into an English garden with a Neo-Gothic summerhouse, built on the foundations of a medieval tower. After the Second World War steps were taken to confiscate the property on the basis of the Beneš Decrees. During the Communist era the chateau's interior was looted and, owing to inadequate care for this monument, the entire building deteriorated significantly. From the 1970s the chateau was the seat of a secondary vocational school, which ceased its activities in 2018. After a protracted restitution dispute the chateau was returned to the rightful heirs of the original owners, the Thienen-Adlerflycht family. The current owner of Lomnice Chateau is Franz Baron Thienen-Adlerflycht.

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