In the period from 1778 to 1945, Hradec was held by six generations of the Prussian princely family of the Lichnowski family of Voštice and Werdenberg. The great fire of February 1796 prompted a complete adaptation of the chateau, conceived by the Krnov builder Jan Mihatsch. Despite minor subsequent modifications in the spirit of period historicism, the magnificently equipped residence of the elite aristocratic family of the region has preserved its classicist appearance to this day; In the 1st third of the 19th century, a 60-hectare natural and landscape park of exceptional compositional and dendrological level was established.
Between 1874 and 1891, the builders A. Langer from Wrocław and F. Händel from Weimar led the extension of the so-called Red Castle with a fortification wall and the White Tower. The architecturally extremely attractive complex, inspired by the castles of the German Middle Ages, included, among other things, the necessary stables with a carriage house.
The importance of the Hradec promontory was given mainly by the strategically advantageous terrain, offering a safe haven. That is also why the former Slavic fortified settlement from the 8th century was replaced by the princely castle of the Přemyslids around the middle of the 11th century, rebuilt two centuries later by the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II into an impressive castle protected by thorough fortifications.
From the beginning of the 16th century, Czech rulers pledged the local goods. The last pawn lord was Kašpar Pruskovský of Pruskov, who acquired it as a hereditary property in 1585 and at the same time began the Renaissance reconstruction of the still medieval castle into a comfortably furnished mansion with an ornamental garden and a forest park.
Between 1874 and 1891, the builders A. Langer from Wrocław and F. Händel from Weimar led the extension of the so-called Red Castle with a fortification wall and the White Tower. The architecturally extremely attractive complex, inspired by the castles of the German Middle Ages, included, among other things, the necessary stables with a carriage house.
The importance of the Hradec promontory was given mainly by the strategically advantageous terrain, offering a safe haven. That is also why the former Slavic fortified settlement from the 8th century was replaced by the princely castle of the Přemyslids around the middle of the 11th century, rebuilt two centuries later by the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II into an impressive castle protected by thorough fortifications.
From the beginning of the 16th century, Czech rulers pledged the local goods. The last pawn lord was Kašpar Pruskovský of Pruskov, who acquired it as a hereditary property in 1585 and at the same time began the Renaissance reconstruction of the still medieval castle into a comfortably furnished mansion with an ornamental garden and a forest park.
