red water castle Cervena Lhota, Czech Republic Bohemia Europe. Photo by Willy Matheisl
Willy Matheisl One of the most charmingly situated monuments set in the romantic scenery of Bohemia is the South Bohemian water castle Cervená Lhota It is located on a rock which was turned into a small island by damming up the valley and raising the level of the surrounding pond The yeomans stronghold was bought by Jan Kába of Rybnany in 1530 and soon after rebuilt it as a Renaissance manor After 1641 Lhota became the possession of the Slavatas the nobility of the nearby town Jindrichuv Hradec Before the middle of the 19th century E J Schoenburg Hartenstein ordered the manor exterior to be reconstructed in the spirit of Romanticism At the beginning of the 20th century the battlement and other Gothic Revival elements disappeared The architect Hans Walcher of Moltheim replaced them with pseudo Renaissance gables with arches on top which today characterize Cervená Lhota The manor as well as its interiors make a very cozy impression Visitors will enter or only look into fourteen rooms furnished in a mostly Rococo and Baroque style and with works of art from Renaissance to 19th century Outstanding examples of the collection are for example a portrait of Jáchym and Zachariá of Hradec as infants around 1529 Meissen china and a wall clock from the 18th and 19th century The most exquisite of the rooms is probably the dining room with the ceiling decorated with stucco and a delicate sculptured decoration of the walls followed by the study whose decor is complemented by individual pieces of Renaissance furniture It must have been pleasant to stay in the French Drawing Room with Rococo gilded furniture or in the tower room with a beautiful jewel box from 17th century
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Location: cervena lhota, czech republic, europe
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