Hunting lodge in Šilheřovice, Romantic hunting lodge in Šilheřovice, Czech Republic.
The hunting lodge in Šilheřovice is a free-standing single-storey building in a romanticising style, set about 200 m south-east of Šilheřovice Castle by an artificial pond in the castle park. Its main dining room, with a fireplace, is designed in hunting style. The architect is unknown; the design resembles the park's gatehouses and the Annahof forester's house.
Anselm Salomon von Rothschild had the lodge built in the early 1860s on the site of a manorial farm, ahead of his son Ferdinand's wedding to Evelina Gertrude de Rothschild; the couple spent their honeymoon there in 1865. After 1945 the estate was confiscated under the Beneš decrees, and after 2002 the building was sold and restored as a restaurant.
The lodge stands by the Evelinenteich, a pond created at the same time as the building in place of the Skowrankow farmstead. Ferdinand and Evelina von Rothschild spent their honeymoon here in 1865. Today the building houses a restaurant, and the brick kennels for the hunting dogs survive beside it.
The lodge stands about 200 m southeast of Šilheřovice Castle, beside the artificial Evelin Pond in the castle park, and an 18-hole golf course laid out in 1970 runs around it. The building now houses a restaurant, so visitors not dining there should keep to the park paths and avoid the fairways.
The architect's name is not recorded; the strong resemblance to the park's gatehouses suggests the same designer, and similar elements appear on the Annahof forester's house. The brick kennels for hunting dogs also survive beside the lodge.
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