Janovice u Rýmařova (chateau)

Beginning in 1586, construction work began and the fortress was transformed into a pleasant Renaissance chateau. When Ferdinand left the Prague imperial court for the Lutheran faith, Janovice became his asylum. An excellent financier and mining expert built the smelter on the estate according to the Styrian model, and thus gave impetus to the modernization of the entire iron industry in our countries. Between 1656 and 1658, a chapel in the form of a roundel was added to the chateau, and in 1663, shortly before the death of Wolfgang Bedřich, the chateau was rebuilt by the builder Alessandro Cannevalo in the early Baroque style. After the Dietrichstein period, the manor passed in 1721 with the marriage of the widowed Maria Arnoštka of Gallas to the ownership of the Jilemnice counts of the Harrach family, and the chateau became a secondary seat of the Czech family. Ferdinand Bonaventura carried out a major reconstruction of the chateau in the 1840s with the help of the important builder Gottfried Weisser in the late Baroque style. His work is the entire western and part of the northern wing, which completed the castle in today's shape of the open letter L. This created a valuable, exhibition and extremely spacious building. Already in the 1960s, however, the chateau was rebuilt again, this time in the Classicist style, by Isidore Ganneval. In 1764, the castle clock began to strike and in 1766 the extension of the brewery was completed.

Today's face was acquired by the chateau between 1827 and 1850. In the 19th and 20th centuries, internal alterations took place and the last external alterations date back to 1901. The chateau became the permanent seat of the Janovice line of Harrachs under Karel Alfréd in the second half of the 19th century. The branch died out in 1937 by a prominent agricultural expert and philanthropist František Arnošt. The last owner was his daughter Anna Marie, the wife of the Hungarian diplomat František Zikmund Rosta - Forgache from Barkocz.

The most difficult moments occurred after 1945. The property was confiscated from the family of the persecuted Nazis, part of the furniture was exported to Hungary, something was placed at the Liběchov chateau and most of it was destroyed or stolen. There was a certain improvement with the arrival of the archives of the Olomouc Region in 1949, and later additional funds were added. In 2002, the archive was deposited in Opava and Olomouc. The lock is empty and with traces of insensitive handling, but dry and not irreversible.