Schoenborn Palace, Hunting palace in Mukachevo Raion, Ukraine.
Schoenborn Palace is a hunting lodge built in 1890–1895 for Count Erwin Friedrich Schönborn-Buchheim in the village of Karpaty, Mukachevo Raion. The light-coloured stone and plaster ranges carry red-tiled roofs; a round tower with a conical roof and spire stands at one corner, and a tiered lantern tops a slimmer tower to the right. The style mixes Romanesque and Gothic motifs, with heraldic reliefs, weather vanes and stained glass.
Emperor Charles VI granted the estates of the rebellious Prince Rákóczi to Lothar Franz Schönborn, Archbishop of Mainz, on 31 July 1728; the childless archbishop passed the Transcarpathian domain to his cousin Friedrich Karl. Count Erwin Friedrich Schönborn-Buchheim built the hunting lodge in 1890–1895. In 1945 the estate was nationalised and became the Karpaty sanatorium.
The palace carries the name of the Schönborn counts, a German-Austrian noble family that held large estates in Transcarpathia after Emperor Charles VI granted the domain to Archbishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn on 31 July 1728. The family heraldry appears in the bas-reliefs, weather vanes and stained glass on the façades, and a tower clock with chimes still marks the hours.
The palace stands in the village of Karpaty, Mukachevo Raion, and has housed the Karpaty sanatorium since 1946. It is a working medical facility, so access to the buildings and park depends on the sanatorium, and there is no confirmed public tour programme. The park holds a memorial sign in Hungarian and two sculptures, "Deer" and "She-Bear with Cub".
The pond dug at the end of the 19th century was shaped by Count Erwin Friedrich Schönborn-Buchheim so that its outline roughly traced the map of Austria-Hungary. Two sculptures stand in the park, "Deer" and "Bear with a Bear Cub", beside a memorial stone inscribed in Hungarian.
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