Zámek Černá Hora, Renaissance Revival château in Černá Hora, Czech Republic
Zámek Černá Hora is a castle on a hill in the northern part of the town of Černá Hora, in the Blansko district. It was rebuilt in a pseudo-Renaissance style between 1859 and 1861 by Count Mořic Friess of Friessenburg, after his mother-in-law Henrietta Pereira-Arnstein began the conversion in 1857.
Matouš z Černé Hory, a Moravian chamberlain, built the castle between 1279 and 1298. It burned in 1726 and was abandoned in 1818; from 1857 Henrietta Pereira-Arnstein began converting it into a château, work completed in 1859–1861 by her son-in-law Count Mořic Friess. Confiscated in 1945, it became a social institution.
The château has housed a social care institution since 1945, when it was confiscated from the Friess family. The name Černá Hora, "Black Mountain", comes from the hill in the northern part of the market town where the building stands.
The château stands on a hill in the northern part of the market town of Černá Hora, in the Blansko district, and can be reached on foot from the town centre. Since 1945 it has housed a social care institution, so the grounds and interiors are not open to visitors.
The 1726 fire led to provisional repairs, but the château was abandoned in 1818. Henrietta Pereira-Arnstein bought it in 1857 and began the pseudo-Renaissance conversion, completed in 1859–1861 by her son-in-law Count Mořic Friess of Friessenburg. In 1945 the Friess family lost the property and a social institute was set up there.
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