Státní hrad a zámek Horšovský Týn

Om museet

Above the ford over the river Radbuza, one of the Prague bishops had a fortified early Gothic castle of the castle type built in the mid-13th century; its most valuable part, the castle chapel, survives to this day. After the Hussite Wars the castle passed from ecclesiastical to secular hands. It was first owned by the lords of Ronšperk and from around 1535 by the lords of Lobkowicz.

After a great fire in the town in 1547, which seriously damaged the castle, Jan Popel of Lobkowicz the Younger had the half-ruined building rebuilt around 1550 into a château in the then modern Renaissance style. In 1623 the estate was bought, as confiscated property, by the imperial diplomat Maximilian of Trauttmansdorff. His family owned the château for more than three hundred years, until 1945, when the state took it over. Because it was hardly rebuilt after the Renaissance reconstruction in the 16th century, the château has kept its original character.

In 1996 the whole complex was declared a national cultural monument. It includes the main château building, the burgrave’s palace and a landscape park of almost 40 hectares. Today Horšovský Týn is one of the most accessible monuments in the country: in the main season it offers five guided routes with a total length of over five hours.

Højdepunkter

• early Gothic castle chapel from the mid-13th century
• Renaissance interiors of the castle with an equipped armoury
• château salons, ballroom and a library of 15 thousand volumes
• castle kitchen from the 1920s and a depository with more than 2,500 objects
• exhibition on Countess Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi
• landscape park of almost 40 hectares

Permanente udstillinger

• Grand prohlídka – Hradozámek – The guide leads through the oldest part of the castle with the early Gothic chapel and the representative rooms of the château.
• Mitsuko – The renewed exhibition tells the story of Japanese-born Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi, who left her native country at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and built her life in Western Europe.
• Kuchyně – z tajů depozitáře – The route leads into the château kitchen from the 1920s and into the opened depository of glass, porcelain and textiles with more than 2,500 objects.

Ejer

Národní památkový ústav

Entrépriser & rabatter

Each tour route has its own admission price; the basic routes Hrad, Zámek and the Grand Hradozámek tour cost CZK 220. Payment is possible by card and in cash. Free admission applies, for example, to holders of free tickets and season passes of the NPÚ.

Tilgængelighed

• Delvis kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Only the main courtyard is step-free, and with a little help the public toilets are as well; an accessible toilet is included in the construction plan. Visitors with disabilities may take a tour with an escort. The routes have 54–77 steps; the Kitchen route has only 6.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

Families with children are welcome at the château. Children aged 6 to 17 pay the reduced admission, and children under 5 enter free. In the summer season the café on the parkán also has seating for children.

Transport & parkering

Horšovský Týn lies on road I/26 Plzeň – Folmava, 44 km from Plzeň; from the D5 motorway you can leave at exit 107 or 128. The Přátelství cycle route No. 2141 runs through the town.

Service & spisesteder

• Café

In the summer season there is a café with seating on the parkán, and other restaurants and cafés are in the surroundings of the château. There is a bicycle stand at the entrance gate.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Bryllupper / vielser

The château hosts wedding ceremonies (the website has a separate page, Svatba na Horšovském Týně).

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