Kroměříž Castle

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Kroměříž Castle
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Zámek Kroměříž, nám. Sněmovní, též ZSJ Podzámecká zahrada - 011.JPG
This medieval tower of the Kroměříž Castle was capped by a decorative drum and spire during the Baroque renovation in the 17th century.
Official nameGardens and Castle at Kroměříž
LocationKroměříž, Kroměříž District, Zlín Region, Czech Republic
Includes
  1. Castle Garden and Castle
  2. Pleasure Garden
CriteriaCultural: (ii), (iv)
Reference860
Inscription1998 (22nd Session)
Area74.5 ha (184 acres)
Buffer zone441 ha (1,090 acres)
Coordinates49°18′0″N 17°22′38″E / 49.30000°N 17.37722°E / 49.30000; 17.37722Coordinates: 49°18′0″N 17°22′38″E / 49.30000°N 17.37722°E / 49.30000; 17.37722
Kroměříž Castle is located in Zlín Region
Kroměříž Castle
Location of Kroměříž Castle in Zlín Region

The Kroměříž Castle (Czech: Zámek Kroměříž or Arcibiskupský zámek, German: Schloss Kremsier) in Kroměříž, Czech Republic, used to be the principal residence of the bishops and (from 1777) archbishops of Olomouc. UNESCO listed the gardens and castle as a World Heritage Site in 1998. because of its exceptionally well-preserved and outstanding Baroque gardens.[1]

History[]

The first residence on the site was founded by bishop Stanislas Thurzo in 1497. The building was in a Late Gothic style, with a modicum of Renaissance detail. During the Thirty Years' War, the castle was sacked by the Swedish army (1643).

It was not until 1664 that a bishop from the powerful Lichtenstein family charged architect with renovating the palace in a Baroque style. The chief monument of Lucchese's work in Kroměříž is the Pleasure Garden in front of the castle. Upon Lucchese's death in 1666, completed his work on the formal garden and had the palace rebuilt in a style reminiscent of the Turinese school to which he belonged.

After the castle was gutted by a major fire in March 1752, Bishop Hamilton commissioned two leading imperial artists, Franz Anton Maulbertsch and , arrived at the residence in order to decorate the halls of the palace with their works. In addition to their paintings, the palace still houses an art collection, generally considered the second finest in the country, which includes Titian's last mythological painting, The Flaying of Marsyas. The largest part of the collection was acquired by Bishop Karel in Cologne in 1673. The palace also contains an outstanding musical archive and a library of 33,000 volumes.[2]

Baroque flower garden

Landscape Architecture and Architecture[]

The castle and its grounds were nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List in 1998. As the nomination dossier explains, "the castle is a good but not outstanding example of a type of aristocratic or princely residence that has survived widely in Europe. The Pleasure Garden, by contrast, is a very rare and largely intact example of a Baroque garden".[3] The Baroque landscapes and palaces of Bohemia and Moravia were heavily influenced by the Italian Baroque, although in the layout of this Pleasure Garden on a largely flat site, the influence of the French Formal Baroque style is also visible. Two Italian architects were responsible for the design and execution of the site, Filiberto Luchese (1607–1666) and after his death Giovanni Pietro Tencalla (1629–1702).[4]

The Baroque Pleasure or Lust Garden is located at a distance from the Palace, as can be seen today from aerial photography. The engravings completed in 1691 by Georg Matthaeus Vischer, show a fully enclosed garden divided into half ornamental parterre and the other half to the south composed of orchards and productive ornamental features.[5]

Apart from the formal Baroque parterres there is also a less formal nineteenth-century English garden close to the palace, which sustained damage during floods in 1997.[6][7]

Film Use of the Site[]

Interiors of the palace were extensively used by Miloš Forman as a stand-in for Vienna's Hofburg Imperial Palace during filming of Amadeus (1984), based on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who actually never visited Kroměříž, although some of his compositions are stored in the music archive of the castle.[8] There are more films / series which was shot (at least partially) in the palace and/or gardens.

Year Film / serie IMDb link
2019 Whiskey Cavalier

[1]

2017 Maria Theresa

[2]

2014 The Musketeers

[3]

2016 Satisfaction 1720

[4]

2014 Ekaterina

[5]

2013 Angélique

[6]

2012 A Royal Affair

[7]

2010 Chateaubriand

[8]

2012 La figlia del capitano

[9]

2003 Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone

[10]

2002 Napoléon

[11]

1999 Michele Strogoff - Il corriere dello zar [12]
1994 Immortal Beloved

[13]

1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

[14]

1991 The Frog Prince

[15]

1984 Amadeus

[16]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 6 Jun 2021.
  2. ^ "Archbishop's Chateau Kroměříž". Archbishop’s Chateau Kroměříž. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  3. ^ "WORLD HERITAGE LIST Kromeríz (Czech Republic) No 860" (PDF). whc.unesco.org/. International Council on Monuments and Sites.
  4. ^ "Archbishop's Chateau and Gardens Kroměříž". zamek-kromeriz.cz/. Národní Památkový Ústav.
  5. ^ "Moll's Collection: Kroměříž". mapy.mzk.cz/. Mollova Mapova Sbírka.
  6. ^ "Kromeriz Castle and Gardens, Kroměříž, Czech Republic - SpottingHistory.com". www.spottinghistory.com. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  7. ^ CzechTourism. "Kroměříž · #VisitCzechRepublic". www.visitczechrepublic.com. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  8. ^ Jana Spáčilová:Hudba na dvoře olomouckého biskupa Schrattenbacha (1711–1738), Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav hudební vědy, Brno 2006

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