Jemniště Chateau, Baroque chateau in Central Bohemia, Czech Republic
Jemniště Chateau is a baroque château located in the village of Jemniště in Central Bohemia, roughly an hour south of Prague. The complex includes a main residential building with period-furnished rooms and a landscaped park containing a chapel.
Count František Adam of Trauttmansdorff bought the estate in 1717 and had the Baroque chateau built in 1724 to plans by František Maxmilián Kaňka. A fire in 1754 led to its rebuilding and refurnishing; the Sternberg family acquired it in 1868 and recovered it in 1995 after communist confiscation.
The Sternberg family recovered the chateau in 1995 after communist confiscation, and Jiří Sternberg, a nephew of the restitutor Zdeněk Sternberg, lives with his wife Petra and two children in the left wing. The state rooms are rented out for wedding banquets and other events, so parts of the building are not always open.
The chateau can only be visited as part of a guided tour, so checking opening days before arriving is a good idea. On-site accommodations and a cafe are available for those who want to stay longer.
The ceiling fresco in the Great Hall, signed "Felix Antonius Scheffer pinxit anno 1754", shows the Assembly of the Olympian Gods; the same painter decorated the walls with allegories of the seasons and of human qualities. The chapel of St Joseph holds his ceiling painting of the Holy Trinity, made the same year.
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