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Fryštát Castle / Palace in Fryštát

Name: Fryštát Castle / Palace in Fryštát
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Location: Moravia-Silesia, Moravskoslezský Kraj, Czech Republic

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1. Pond with an island – Darkovský Bridge loop from Karviná

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2. Božena Němcová Park – Pond with an island loop from Karviná

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3. Darkovský Bridge – Božena Němcová Park loop from Ráj

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October 31, 2022

The origins of the facility date back to the Middle Ages and the beginnings of Frysztat as an independent city. From the fourteenth century, there was a wooden, gothic castle here, built by the Cieszyn Piasts, for whom it was the second, after Cieszyn, family seat. The castle served primarily as a stronghold on the border of Silesia and Moravia, guarding trade routes to Poland. When it burned down in a fire in 1511, Duke Kazimierz II rebuilt it in the early Renaissance style from stone and brick. At that time, it was the second residence of the Piast princes of Cieszyn, who granted the city numerous privileges. Despite this, they quickly left Frysztat, because in 1570 they moved to a new residence - the Raj Palace. In 1572, the so-called The Frisian state was bought from the Piasts by the Gypsies (Czech Cikán) from Słupsk. From that moment on, the events related to subsequent noble families began.
The Gypsies owned the castle until 1637 - after the Thirty Years' War, as followers of Lutheranism, they had to flee Silesia. Earlier, in 1617, the castle was damaged by a fire, and later by the troops moving through Frysztat. It was bought by a Catholic nobleman Zdeněk Žampach from Potštejn, but sold it two years later. Then it was briefly ruled by Henryk Wacław Podiebradowicz (Czech Jindřich Václav of Minstrberk; a descendant of King George of Podiebrady), but the building continued to deteriorate. In 1650, the subsequent owners were the counts Gaschin (Czech Gašínové) from Gašín, who made it their family seat. They also made renovations and small reconstructions in the baroque style. In the years 1738-1749 the castle changed owners four times. The new ones who stayed longer were the counts of Taaffe, but the castle fell into decline again, as it was partially destroyed by another fire.
In 1792 Frysztat and the castle were bought by Count Jan Larisch von Mönnich and completely rebuilt in the Empire style. He also added a new wing (the so-called Lottyhaus) and thus a U-shaped town palace was created, forming one of the frontages of the market square. In 1804, they established a large English-style park behind the castle. At the nearby Catholic Church of the Exaltation of St. Cross, the Larisch family also built an ancestral tomb; besides it, there are laundries and baths in the vicinity of the palace, and a Swiss-style summer house by a nearby stream.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the rank of the Larisch family (one of them, Jan, became, among others, the Austrian Minister of Finance), began to look for a larger seat. In 1873 they built a neo-Renaissance palace in Solca, and since then the palace in Frysztat fulfilled only mainly economic functions, although Georg Larisch also lived there for some time, the husband of Maria Larisch, niece of Empress Elizabeth, also lived there for some time.
At the beginning of the 20th century, however, he was visited by several distinguished guests - incl. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, German Emperor Wilhelm II and the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I Koburg. At that time, the Larisch family were among the main owners of the mining industry (coal mines) in the Duchy of Cieszyn.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%82ac_we_Frysztacie

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