PT Journal
AU Fiedlerova, L
TI An Island in Time - The Transformation of the Vrchotovy Janovice Castle Park
SO Pamatky strednich Cech
PY 2021
BP 47
EP 66
VL 35
IS 2
DI 10.56112/psc.2021.2.03
WP https://pamatkysc.cz/en/artkey/psc-202102-0003.php
DE Vrchotovy Janovice; castle park; new sources; specification of history
SN 08621586
AB The text covers the origin and transformation of the castle park in Vrchotovy Janovice from the 18th century when the Counts of Vrtba administered the domain. It recapitulates the ornamental garden of Count Wratislaw of Mitrowitz from the late 1820s that his son incorporated into a vast English park shortly afterwards. It deals in detail with the 1880s when Knight Karel Nadherny of Borutin bought the castle and transformed its surroundings based on the style of the time and his ideas. The last part focuses on the 1920s and 1930s when the brother and sister Sidonie and Karel Nadherny imparted an original look to the castle park. They followed the advice of the botanist Camillo Schneider and the connoisseur of alpine plants Herbert Schaffgotsch.Many authors described the historical transformation of the Vrchotovy Janovice park, and the article summarises their knowledge and expands it with information from newly discovered iconographic sources (maps, plans, sketches, and photographs).
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