The older building to the east of the Old Chateau was rebuilt in the spirit of the High Renaissance in the middle of the 17th century at the latest into the two-storey four-winged New Chateau with corner cylindrical towers. A part of the basement of the predecessor of the New Castle survives in the present building. Probably in connection with the High Baroque reconstruction of the New Castle, carried out under John Louis Richard of Cavriani by 1724, the garden was extended by a wide cornice with a geometric composition in a south-easterly direction (towards the river). A substantial part of the garden was lost when the railway was built in 1849. After the demolition of the farmyard with the brewery, the remaining part was converted into an English park (a surviving torso).
The chateau chapel became the parish church of St. Florian in 1897, the chateau was in the possession of the last owners of the estate until 1945 (Leo Skrbensky, son of Malvina Kolowrat-Krakowsky-Novohradsky).
Since the 1950s, both chateaux have served as the computer centre of the Czech Railways (the buildings were transferred to the National Heritage Institute in 2003). In 2011, the extensive renovation of the chateau as the headquarters of the territorial expert workplace of the National Heritage Institute for the Ústí nad Labem Region was completed.
Contact
Address
Národní památkový ústav, územní odborné pracoviště v Ústí nad Labem
Podmokelská 1/38
400 07 Ústí nad Labem - Krásné Březno
Telephone contact
+420 472 704 800
E-mail
florian@npu.cz
Web page
www.npu.cz