Zámeček Dolní Tošanovice Castle

The castle is located in the northeast part of the village Dolní Tošanovice in the district of Frýdek-Místek and is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic since 2006 together with its two-year tiled stove. The historical roots of the building date back to 1445, when there was a small fortress. This was replaced by an empirical castle built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries by a builder named Mattencloity.

In the interwar period the castle gained a new dimension when in 1933 the last owner, doctor MUDr. Vítěslav Chlumský, had it modified to a luxury villa. After World War II, its purpose changed: the object served the state farm Český Těšín as a hostel for its employees. With the advent of democratic changes after 1990, the castle was resected by the Chlumsky family, which thus returned to its ownership. In 2015 he was hit by a severe fire test which damaged a large part of the roof.

The area consists of a main building, supplemented by economic buildings and chapel situated in the letter U. The building itself is a storey walled building on a rectangular plan covered by a valb roof with skylights. The north front stands out with an axis-permeating risalite, which is vertically членen by three window axes and ended with a triangular shield. The lower parts are decorated with rustics, the higher parts lack Russian decoration. There are stucco fields between the windows on the ground floor, there is a bossmanship on the floor. The south facade, divided by four window axes, is coated with a porticus made up of two pairs of ring columns, on which is a balcony with a forged railing from voluously rolled iron stripes. All the windows are oblong with stucco-shaped shambles ended with a jewel.

The interior of the castle reflects its extra-cost development. The rooms on the ground floor are encapsulated with Prussian placky, while the ceilings prevail on the floor. The main attractions are a two-stroke tile stove with fine decoration: the bottom is decorated with diamonds, the upper part boasts plant decoration over the profiled ledge and vegetative elements on the pillars. The wooden staircase leading to the floor, situated opposite the main entrance, complements the passage through the interior. The chapel shows historical paintings and preserved the original wooden altar, although the farm building and the chapel were severely damaged by the fire.

The visit to the castle is an opportunity to observe how Czech construction responds to European artistic trends: from Empire elegance to Art Nouveau details to the restoration of traditional property. This is an unusual witness to the story of the distinctive owners and transformations their home has been through for centuries.