Kunzov, Romantic château in Radíkov, Czech Republic.
Kunzov is a Romantic-style château built in 1907–1908 near Radíkov, with a hexagonal layout enclosed by a stone wall and corner towers. Its southeast gate is flanked by two stone lions bearing the arms of Moravia and Silesia, with the arms of Bohemia in the attic above.
Antonín Kunz of Hranice built Kunzov in 1907–1908 as a summer residence in a Romantic style. After his death in 1910 it fell out of use; his son sold it in 1930 to the forester František Hrubý. From 1961 to 1994 the state enterprise Moravia ran it as a pioneer camp, and in 2007 it was listed as a cultural monument.
The name Kunzov derives from its builder, the Hranice factory owner Antonín Kunz, who used it as a summer residence from 1907. The National Heritage Institute calls it a rare example of a capitalist styling himself as a medieval aristocrat, reflected in the battlements, towers and carved devils and dragons.
Kunzov stands in the settlement of the same name, roughly halfway between Hrabůvka and Radíkov in the Přerov district. It is reached by a small road from Radíkov to Hrabůvka and by the red hiking trail; a blue-marked trail from Hrabůvka heads toward Uhřínov. The grounds reopened in May 2023 after reconstruction.
Kunzov was listed as a cultural monument in 2007 against the wishes of its then owner, Rent Building Plus. The National Heritage Institute called it a rare example of a capitalist styling himself after a medieval aristocrat.
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