Kravsko Castle, Classicist château in Kravsko, Czech Republic.
Kravsko Castle is a two-storey classicist château in the south of Kravsko, built at the end of the 18th century. Its rectangular main block has a mansard roof, a pillared portico with terrace on the east front, and short perpendicular wings linked to pentagonal pavilions; the north pavilion serves as the Chapel of the Virgin Mary. A rococo statue of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga from 1847 stands before the court of honour.
A one-storey Baroque summer residence of the Louka abbot, built in the mid-18th century, stood on the site. After the Louka monastery was dissolved, Count Jan Václav Ugarte bought the Kravsko estate in 1789 and had the residence rebuilt as a Classicist château, adding a second floor and a loggia. Luise Ugarte added the pentagonal Marian chapel in 1847; the state confiscated the château in 1948 and used it as a school until 1968.
The castle is unused and closed to the public, so its story is told by the buildings themselves: the pentagonal Chapel of the Virgin Mary on the north side of the east facade, built in 1847 by Luise Ugarte, and a matching pavilion opposite it, added to keep the composition symmetrical. The rococo statue of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, dated 1847, stands before the entrance to the court of honour.
The château is unused and closed to the public, so visits are limited to views of the exterior. From the village of Kravsko, south of Znojmo, the main building, its five-sided chapel and the rococo statue of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga in front of the courtyard can be seen. The landscaped park with its pond, laid out in the late 19th century, lies around the château.
The rococo statue of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, dated 1847, stands in front of the entrance to the honorary courtyard, not on the facade. It was commissioned under the Ugarte family, who also added the pentagonal Marian chapel and its matching pavilion in the same year.
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