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chateau Letohrad

Letohrad is a picturesque town located near the East Bohemian Ústí nad Orlicí and Žamberk. Until 1950, the town was named Kyšperk after the castle of the same name, of which only a torso has survived today.

Information for visitors

Adress: Václavské nám. 1, Letohrad
GPS: 50.03543580, 16.49898830
chateau Letohrad map

Interesting facts chateau Letohrad

However, the village still had a second manor house. It was a fortress, built in 1554 by Zdeněk Žampach of Potštejn. It had a simple wooden structure and was without fortifications. In 1680, a Baroque chateau was built in its place, which was later expanded and rebuilt. The last aristocratic owners of the manor were the Stubenberg-Nimptschs, to whom the castle belonged until 1945, when it fell to the state. It is currently managed by the town of Letohrad.

From an architectural point of view, the Letohrad chateau is not a significant building. It has a rectangular floor plan and two floors topped by a turret with an onion-shaped roof. Next to the chateau building is another, one-storey building, opened on the first floor by arcades, which was used to house farm machinery and equipment. To the west of this building is the single-nave castle chapel of St. Wenceslas Square, built in the Baroque style, and considered the most valuable building in the entire castle grounds. In 1726 it was transformed into a parish church. The interior of the church has an extremely valuable stucco ceiling decoration, the work of Giovanni Maderna.

At present, there is a private grammar school, a hotel and a restaurant in the chateau building. However, the castle atmosphere breathes on visitors at the curtain with a panorama of the town of Letohrad, the work of Jan Umlauf. The walls are decorated with antlers and paintings with hunting scenes.

The first of the rooms is Baroque, decorated with two Baroque paintings. Interesting pieces of furniture here include a Rococo secretary, decorated with landscapes, a table and mayor's chairs (replicas), on which the local councilors once sat in the 16th century.

Another of the rooms is dedicated to the Umlauf family and the 19th century. There are paintings and wood carvings by Dominika Umlauf, secretary, inlaid with five types of wood and also a harmonium.

"The most modern" is the last of the rooms, equipped in the spirit of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively Art Nouveau. It was in what was then Kyšperk that the studio of Alfons Mucha was established at that time, whose paintings can be found in this room. However, the author of most of the paintings is Rudolf Faltus, a local native.

Author Andrea Štyndlová