The Hrubý Rohozec State Chateau, surrounded by a small English park, offers its visitors a tour of more than thirty richly furnished rooms, which previously served as representative and living rooms for members of the originally French Count family Des Fours Walderode.
The predecessor of today’s chateau was an early Gothic castle built after 1300 on a rock above the Jizera River. Its founder was most likely a member of the Markvartic family – Havel, who subsequently began to write with the epithet “from Rohozce” according to his newly founded residence.
In the 14th and 15th centuries , the castle was owned by the lords of Turgov, the lords of Michalovice and the Krajíř family of Krajek. At the beginning of the 16th century, during the reign of Konrad Krajíř of Krajek, Hrubý Rohozec was rebuilt into a comfortablelate Gothic residence.
Since the middle of the 16th century, Hrubý Rohozec has been the property of the Vartenberks, who after 1600 proceeded to its further reconstruction, this time in the form of a Renaissance chateau. However, the Vartenberks took part in the uprising of the estates, and therefore their property was confiscated after the Battle of White Mountain; in 1623 , Hrubý Rohozec was bought by the famous Albrecht of Wallenstein. However, in 1628 , the chateau and the surrounding manor were acquired by Mikuláš Des Fours, whose descendants then served as a family residence for more than three centuries, i.e. until its confiscation in 1945.
Members of the Des Fours family (since 1831 Des Fours Walderode) modified the chateau, its interiors and its immediate surroundings according to their requirements and period taste. Hrubý Rohozec thus first underwent a Baroque modification; the interior of the Chapel of the Holy Trinity has been preserved from this period to this day, equipped with Baroque and Rococo furnishings. The chateau acquired its final form in the 19th century, when it was rebuilt in the Empire style according to the design of the architect Jan Filip Joendl . Romantic modifications from the middle of the 19th century (e.g. the neo-Gothic portal of the door leading to the staircase to the castle chapel) did not have a significant impact on the overall appearance of the castle.
In the 19th century, some of the interiors of the castle also acquired their present appearance, the most important of which are the castle dining room with valuable painting of the walls and ceiling in the Romantic Gothic style or some rooms on the second floor painted in the style of the second Rococo.
At present, the interiors of the chateau are presented in their original form from the 1930s , when its penultimate owner, Count Mikuláš Vladimír Des Fours Walderode, with his wife Gabriela Karolína and their sons Maxmilián and Ludvík, lived in the chateau.
