Slovanka, Cultural monument and château in Hlubočepy, Czech Republic.
Slovanka is a homestead, sometimes called a small château, at the start of Prokopské údolí in Hlubočepy, Prague. It consists of two buildings: a Baroque residential house documented in 1726 and a farm building called Patricie, which had a Neo-Renaissance facade and was rebuilt after 1910. Other buildings once belonging to the homestead were sold in 1926 to Sokol at Zlíchov.
A medieval vineyard stood on the site before it passed to the engineer and professor František Antonín Herget, who built the Baroque residential building recorded in 1726. Further works followed in 1862 and 1910–1927, when the farm building called Patricie, with a Neo-Renaissance facade, was rebuilt. In 1899 Vilemína Hergetová and Helena Zeileisenová inherited the estate; after Vilemína's death in 1926 it was bought by the factory owner John, and from 1945 the state owned it.
The structures on the grounds display traditional Czech building styles that visitors can see reflected in the different architectural periods represented across the site. The arrangement of buildings tells the story of how Czech construction and design preferences changed over the generations.
Slovanka stands at the entrance to Prokopské údolí in Hlubočepy, where the valley path begins; the two buildings are privately owned and not open to the public, so the grounds are best viewed from the surrounding paths. The site can be reached on foot from the Hlubočepy area.
The estate's grounds are linked to a circle of artists: Egon Bondy lived here for a time and wrote about it in his memoir Prvních deset let, the painter Jan 'Hanes' Reegen stayed partly in the garden greenhouse, and Vladimír Boudník visited. The site is said to have inspired the opening location of the film 3 sezóny v pekle.
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