Larischův letohrádek, Summer residence in Horní Těrlicko, Czech Republic.
Larischův letohrádek is a two-story cylindrical summer residence in Horní Těrlicko. Its main cylindrical body is covered by a low, flat dome. Two single-room ground-floor wings with rectangular plans meet at an obtuse angle, and a taller rear wing holds a wooden staircase to the upper floor with three windows. The wings have barrel-vaulted rooms and saddle roofs.
Count Heinrich Larisch-Mönnich had the Empire-style summer residence built probably between 1801 and 1804, when it stood by the road from Těšín to Polská Ostrava amid an orchard. During the famine of 1845–1848, in 1847, he had local farmers build a wall beside it; they received a full day's food for the work. The wall originally enclosed the whole orchard and was up to two metres high.
The building displays Empire-style features with clean lines and symmetry that reflect aristocratic taste of its time. It served as the center of an estate that grew fruit and employed local workers in its operations.
The residence stands by Těšínská road (I/11) in Horní Těrlicko, on the route that once ran from Těšín to Polská Ostrava, a district of Ostrava. It is a protected cultural monument, so the interior is not open as a regular sight; the exterior and the surviving stretch of the Peasant Hunger Wall can be seen from the road.
The building stood in a noble fruit orchard beside the road from Těšín to Polská Ostrava, and served above all as the house of the count's gardener, not only as a hunting lodge. In 1847 Count Heinrich Larisch-Mönnich had local farmers build the Hunger Wall next to it; they received a full day's food for the work. Only a few dozen metres of the wall, once up to two metres high and enclosing the whole orchard, survive.
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