Mirošov Castle, Cultural monument in Mirošov, Czech Republic.
Mirošov Castle consists of a one-storey Renaissance north wing, originally a fortress, measuring 20 by 16 metres, and a Baroque wing of 30 by 16 metres attached at right angles to its southern facade. The Baroque entrance front has lizen frame decoration, rectangular windows, and a central risalit with a mansard roof and a small tower. Above the middle window of the risalit is the alliance coat of arms of Jan Antonín Vratislav of Mitrovice and Marie Zuzana Talacká of Ještětice.
The Gryspek family built a Renaissance residence here at the end of the 16th century; Mirošov passed to Ferdinand Gryspek in 1588 as inheritance from his father Florián. In 1723 Jan Antonín Vratislav z Mitrovic had the old fortress enlarged with a Baroque wing designed by the Plzeň architect Jakub Auguston. Deeply in debt from the work, he sold the estate to the imperial chamber in 1726 for 226,000 gulden.
The castle's name comes from the town of Mirošov. In the 1970s the Central Customs Administration of Prague planned to turn it into a school, but the project was never carried out. In the 2010s an exhibition was created here about the castle's history and about Ladislav Karel Feierabend, the interwar finance minister who owned it briefly before 1940.
The castle is situated in Mirošov, which has been accessible by rail since the 1800s, making a visit straightforward for travelers. The location and surrounding landscape of the Švihov Highlands make it easy to explore both the building and the countryside on foot.
The baroque wing's central risalit carries a coat-of-arms alliance above the middle first-floor window: that of Jan Antonín Vratislav of Mitrovice and Marie Zuzana Talacká of Ještěnice, the couple who commissioned Jakub Auguston's plans. The older north wing, by contrast, is a 20 × 16 m single-storey block that was the Gryspek Renaissance fortress, its interior layout largely original despite later alterations.
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