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Jaroměřice upon the Rokytná River The Castle Jaroměřice upon the Rokytná River Elaborated by: Lukáš Svoboda, Václav Slabý, Michal Smilek

The state castle Jaroměřice upon the Rokytná River is a baroque national cultural sight. It creates a dominant and a symbol of the town Jaroměřice upon the Rokytná River together with St. Markéta´s cathedral. Today’s castle got its look after the reconstruction that was organized and paid by the last of Questenberk - Jan Adam. The authors of the primary project of the baroque reconstruction of the castle and the church could be both Johann Lucas Hildebrand and Jakub Prandtauer. The park on the right bank of the Rokytná river, which has an area of about 9 ha, belongs to the castle, too.

History Some researchers think that there was a medieval stronghold at the place of today‘s castle. The stronghold was intended to be developed at a strategically advantageous place: on the rock protected by swamps, which the Rokytná brook creates, from the south. There is no documented evidence whether the stronghold was really here - the stronghold may have been developed only at the very end of the Middle Ages - after 1498 - before its renaissance reconstruction began. . Ludvík Meziříčský ( 1554-1576) let the stronghold rebuild into a castle as early as at the beginning of his reign. The stronghold became the castle with three one-storey wings: - the middle wing was turned to the square. - both two lateral wings were turned to the river. The symmetrically arranged garden reached only to the river and it was surrounded by the wall along it, in the west the garden was in the neighbourhood of the rectory.

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