Jičíněves, Baroque château in Jičíněves, Czech Republic
Jičíněves château is a three-storey Baroque building with an approximately square plan, a mansard roof topped by a small tower, and a single-nave chapel attached to its western corner. A one-storey wing adjoins the northwest, farm buildings stand on the slope before the southwest façade, and an Empire-style pavilion lies northeast.
Jičíněves was an independent estate attached to Veliš Castle in the early 17th century. After Albrecht von Wallenstein's death in 1634, Jindřich Šlik (1580–1650) acquired it and other Jičín-area holdings. František Josef Šlik had the château built in 1715–1717, probably to a design by Jean Baptiste Mathey, who was already dead by then. The Šliks were expropriated after 1948 and restituted in 1992.
The Šlik family used the château alternately with their castle at Kopidlno, about 7 km away, and a poplar avenue once lined the route between the two residences. The estate administration also had its seat in the château grounds. The family recovered the property in 1992.
The château is not open to the public, so visits are limited to viewing the three-storey Baroque building from outside; it stands on a hill on the north-eastern edge of Jičíněves and is visible from a distance. The grounds include a 19th-century landscape park of 8.8 ha and, south of the château, the two-hectare Zámecký rybník pond.
A nearly 7 km long avenue of poplars once lined the route between the Jičíněves château and the château at Kopidlno, which the Šlik family used alternately. The château itself is not open to the public.
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