Dřevíč Castle, Baroque castle in Sýkořice, Czech Republic
Dřevíč Castle is a single-storey baroque building with a rectangular plan and a mansard roof, built in the early 18th century and remodelled in the 19th. Above the south entrance is a small coat of arms of the Fürstenberg princely house. The grounds also contain a summer pavilion, farm buildings and the neo-baroque Chapel of St Hubert.
The castle was built in the early 18th century by Prince Josef Wilhelm Fürstenberg as a replacement for an older hunting lodge from the 16th century. It changed hands when the state acquired it in 1929 and converted it to a different purpose.
The chapel of St. Hubertus west of the castle was built in 1899 by architect Amand Louis Bauqué, who had also remodelled the Fürstenberg seat at Donaueschingen. Its dedication to the patron saint of hunters ties it to the hunting lodge and the surrounding Křivoklát forests.
The castle is a private residence and is not open to the public, so visits are limited to viewing the exterior from the surrounding grounds. The Vůznice valley east of the complex is a national nature reserve, and the ruins of the medieval hunting castle Jenčov lie about two kilometres to the north.
After passing to state control, the building was repurposed as a headquarters for forest administration and operated as a training facility for workers. This practical transformation changed the building from a noble residence into a center for managing the surrounding woodlands.
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