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Chateau Bruntál
The Chateau Bruntál is the pearl of the Bruntál District. It reflects the city’s rich history, and present
cultural and social life. It offers guided tours of standard expositions as well as special attractions, such as
the Museum for Seniors, Creative Workshops, and more. The Chateau Bruntál and Castle Sovinec with
Water Driven Iron Mill Kosárna in Karlovice, also administered by the Museum Bruntál, public-benefit
corporation of the Moravian-Silesian Region.
The current state of Chateau Bruntál is the result of
five centuries of construction and development. The
original late Gothic castle at the town walls was later
renovated and rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau with
a circular ground plan with a gallery of arcades in the
courtyard and a clock tower, built by the Lords of Vrbno
and Bruntál in the late 1500s. During the rule of the
Teutonic Order, the castle was reshaped into its current
baroque structure by the architect F. A. Neumann in
1766–1771. Minor renewals were made in the 19th and
early 20th centuries. The most valuable interiors are
open to the public. The Chateau Exposition consists of
the chapel on the ground floor and chateau halls on
the first floor, some of which are decorated with rococo
murals of extraordinary quality and value, with original
furnishings from the 18th to early 20th centuries. The art
collection includes paintings by Italian, Dutch, Flemish,
and German Masters of the 16th-18th centuries. The
huge Chateau Library is also of extraordinary historical
value and importance.
The halls in the oldest part of the chateau (from early
16th century) house two permanent museal expositions:
Nature of Bruntál Area (Příroda Bruntálska), and Useful
Trades Pay Dividends (Řemeslo má zlaté dno), which
is about the artisan and crafts of the district of Bruntál.
Other parts of the chateau which were originally
the kitchen, larders, storerooms, and stables on the
ground floor nowadays serve as short-term exhibition
halls showing collections and works from the Bruntál
Museum, as well as other institutions.
… Did You Know…
… Chateau Bruntál is situated in a historical park
which dates back to the 16th century?
The park is about 2.5ha large. Its layout changed
significantly after 1894, during the times of the
Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, the archduke
Eugen von Habsburg, following plans drafted by
Georg Hauberrisser. The baroque form remained
at the chateau’s front while the rest was designed as
a natural landscape park. You can come across the
remains of the former town walls, a garden hall (sala
terrena) from the early 20th century, the citadel, and
a few sandstone statues from the turn of the 19th
century. The sala terrena is currently being thoroughly
renewed (the work will be finished by mid-2020). This
is how the Chateau Bruntál will open more unique
rooms to the public and offer social events, chamber
concerts, and the inviting atmosphere of the Chateau
Café.
Text:
archiv Muzea v Bruntále,
příspěvkové organizace
Moravskoslezského kraje
Foto: archiv MSK
www.msk.cz
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