This romantic building was erected on the site of a Baroque castle with an extensive sub-castle area in 1839-1871, inspired by English Tudor and Elizabethan architecture. The princely couple of Johann Adolf II of Schwarzenberg with his wife Eleonora, who initiated the reconstruction, also supervised the modification of the landscape park with its area of 58 hectares with terrace formal gardens adjacent to the castle buildings. A tour around the representative halls with a library, morning parlor, reading room, and marble hall with valuable tapestries is completed with the apartment of Princess Eleonora. Another tour presents the private rooms of the last owners of Hluboká, Prince Adolf and his wife Hilda, including several rooms of Adolf’s mother Terezie. The ground fl oor of the castle holds the accessible castle kitchen with its hot and cold kitchen, castle patisserie, and the personal and dining-room lift from the beginning of the 20th century.
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The Hluboká Castle was formerly founded as a guard castle in the middle of the 13th century by the Czech kings. As royal property, it was used very oft en as pledge.