Příčovy Castle, Medieval château in Příčovy, Czech Republic.
Příčovy Castle is a one-storey Baroque château of rough stone with brick, topped by a double mansard roof and pierced by a vaulted passage. Above the Baroque portal on the east side is a lion's head relief holding a ring; over the chapel entrance on the west is an angel's head. The chapel of St Adalbert rises through the first floor, and a Baroque granary stands by the pond Jordán.
Příčovy is first documented in 1365 as Rožmberk property; the Prague St. George monastery held it until 1436. In 1712 the Prague burgher Ferdinand Ignác Schönpflug bought the estate for 6,700 gulden and had the manor house with the Chapel of St. Adalbert built between 1712 and 1714; the chapel was consecrated in 1716. The Lobkowicz family acquired the indebted estate in 1805, and the castle passed to private owners after the 1923 and 1925 land reforms.
The castle grounds host the annual Vlastenecké setkání (Patriotic Gathering) each year around mid-August since 2019, organised by owner Alice Tomková and attended by political activists, publicists and politicians; the third edition was held under the auspices of President Miloš Zeman. The chapel is otherwise opened for Mass at the Příčovy pilgrimage, two weeks after Easter.
The château is privately owned and not normally open to the public. The interior and the Chapel of St Adalbert can occasionally be seen during Mass on the parish pilgrimage, held two weeks after Easter. The grounds lie in the centre of Příčovy, west of the Jordán pond, with the baroque granary on the pond's western bank.
The chapel on the west side holds a main altar with a painting of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and side altars with the Guardian Angel and St. Isidore of Madrid. In August 2017 Archbishop Dominik Duka blessed four restored statues there: the Virgin Mary, St. Wenceslas, St. John of Nepomuk and St. Francis.
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