XX CENTURY
IN 1911 THE LAST CHOTEK, EMERICH, DIED, AND HIS PROPERTIES, INCLUDING THE TŘEBEŠICE ESTATE WERE INHERITED BY HIS NEPHEW, QUIDO THUN - HOHENSTEIN. QUIDO, THOUGH, SPENT HIS FAMILY FORTUNE IN GAMBLING, AND HAD TO ESCAPE TO ROME. HIS PROPERTIES WERE AUCTIONED AND IN 1924 THE ESTATE OF TŘEBEŠICE WAS ACQUIRED BY DOCTOR VOJTĚCH VRANÝ, AN AGRONOMIST, WHOSE FAMILY HAD BEEN RENTING AND FARMING THE ESTATE SINCE THE LATE XIX CENTURY.
DR.VRANÝ CONVERTED THE ESTATE INTO A MODEL FARM, AND AMONG OTHER THINGS HE RENOVATED THE CASTLE BUILDING, WHICH MUST HAVE BEEN IN A SORRY STATE AFTER CENTURIES OF NEGLECT.
ATER THE 2.ND WORLD WAR BROKE OUT, A GESTAPO COMMAND WAS BASED IN THE CASTLE AND IN 1948, WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, THE WHOLE ESTATE WAS CONFISCATED, AND DR. VRANÝ AND HIS FAMILY HAD TO MOVE – ONCE AGAIN - OUT OF THE PROPERTY.
IN THE FOLLOWING DECADES THE FARM BUILDINGS WERE USED BY THE VILLAGE AGRICOLTURAL COOP, WHO ALSO FARMED THE ESTATE FIELDS. FOR THIS REASON THE UTILITY BUILDINGS WERE MANTAINED AND ARE STILL IN RELATIVELY GOOD CONDITIONS. THE CASTLE WAS USED FOR A WHILE AS AN ARCHIVE FOR THE MINISTRY OF AGRICOLTURE IN PRAGUE, WHICH MEANT TONS OF PAPERWORK WERE STORED IN ITS ROOMS.
THIS, AND THE SHIFTING CONDITIONS OF THE HIGH WATERTABLE UNDER THE CASTLE – WHICH HAD NOT BEEN IMPROVED BY THE FILLING UP OF THE WATER MOAT – CAUSED SERIOUS STATIC DAMAGES TO MOST OF THE BUILDING, WHICH AT A CERTAIN POINT SEEMED FATED TO COLLAPSE.
IN THE LATE SEVENTIES THE STATE DECIDED TO INTERVENE, AND WORKS OF STATIC CONSOLIDATION WERE STARTED.ONCE ARRESTED THE SUBSIDING PROCESS, THOUGH, AND WITH THE CASTLE BUILDING STILL IN A DISHEVELLED STATE, THE RENOVATION WAS SUSPENDED – AS TYPICAL IN THE COMMUNIST PERIOD – AND NO MORE WORKS WERE DONE ON THE BUILDING, WHICH KEPT DECAYING FOR ANOTHER 15 YEARS.
AFTER THE END OF THE COMMUNIST AGE, IN 1994 THE CASTLE, WITH THE FARM AND APROX.120 HECTARS OF LAND WERE RESTITUTED BY THE STATE TO DOCTOR VRANY, THE GRANDSON OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER. THE WHOLE PROPERTY WAS OF COURSE, IN A CATASTROPHIC STATE, AND THERE WAS NO WAY TO RUN THE OLD FARM IN ANY PROFITABLE WAY: THERE WAS NO OTHER CHOICE, FOR DR VRANY, THAN PUTTING THE PROPERTY ON THE MARKET, WHERE IT SAT FOR SEVERAL YEARS, WITH NO BUYERS APPEARING.
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DR.VRANÝ CONVERTED THE ESTATE INTO A MODEL FARM, AND AMONG OTHER THINGS HE RENOVATED THE CASTLE BUILDING, WHICH MUST HAVE BEEN IN A SORRY STATE AFTER CENTURIES OF NEGLECT.
ATER THE 2.ND WORLD WAR BROKE OUT, A GESTAPO COMMAND WAS BASED IN THE CASTLE AND IN 1948, WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, THE WHOLE ESTATE WAS CONFISCATED, AND DR. VRANÝ AND HIS FAMILY HAD TO MOVE – ONCE AGAIN - OUT OF THE PROPERTY.
IN THE FOLLOWING DECADES THE FARM BUILDINGS WERE USED BY THE VILLAGE AGRICOLTURAL COOP, WHO ALSO FARMED THE ESTATE FIELDS. FOR THIS REASON THE UTILITY BUILDINGS WERE MANTAINED AND ARE STILL IN RELATIVELY GOOD CONDITIONS. THE CASTLE WAS USED FOR A WHILE AS AN ARCHIVE FOR THE MINISTRY OF AGRICOLTURE IN PRAGUE, WHICH MEANT TONS OF PAPERWORK WERE STORED IN ITS ROOMS.
THIS, AND THE SHIFTING CONDITIONS OF THE HIGH WATERTABLE UNDER THE CASTLE – WHICH HAD NOT BEEN IMPROVED BY THE FILLING UP OF THE WATER MOAT – CAUSED SERIOUS STATIC DAMAGES TO MOST OF THE BUILDING, WHICH AT A CERTAIN POINT SEEMED FATED TO COLLAPSE.
IN THE LATE SEVENTIES THE STATE DECIDED TO INTERVENE, AND WORKS OF STATIC CONSOLIDATION WERE STARTED.ONCE ARRESTED THE SUBSIDING PROCESS, THOUGH, AND WITH THE CASTLE BUILDING STILL IN A DISHEVELLED STATE, THE RENOVATION WAS SUSPENDED – AS TYPICAL IN THE COMMUNIST PERIOD – AND NO MORE WORKS WERE DONE ON THE BUILDING, WHICH KEPT DECAYING FOR ANOTHER 15 YEARS.
AFTER THE END OF THE COMMUNIST AGE, IN 1994 THE CASTLE, WITH THE FARM AND APROX.120 HECTARS OF LAND WERE RESTITUTED BY THE STATE TO DOCTOR VRANY, THE GRANDSON OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER. THE WHOLE PROPERTY WAS OF COURSE, IN A CATASTROPHIC STATE, AND THERE WAS NO WAY TO RUN THE OLD FARM IN ANY PROFITABLE WAY: THERE WAS NO OTHER CHOICE, FOR DR VRANY, THAN PUTTING THE PROPERTY ON THE MARKET, WHERE IT SAT FOR SEVERAL YEARS, WITH NO BUYERS APPEARING.
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XX CENTURY