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IN 1620 JINDŘICH MATERNA SOLD THE ESTATE TO PETR LUKAVECKÝ FROM LUKAVEC, AND THEN IN 1644 THE OWNERSHIP PASSED TO VACLAV RUDOLF VĚŽNIK FROM VĚŽNÍK, WHO IN 1679 BOUGHT ALSO THE NEIGHBOURING ESTATE OF NOVÉ DVORY, AND JOINED THE TWO ESTATES INTO ONE. IN 1718 JOSEF JAROSLAV VĚŽNÍK RENOVATED THE CASTLE IN LATE BAROQUE STYLE: FROM THIS AGE DATE BACK THE NEW BAROQUE MANSARDE ROOF AND THE PLASTIC ARTICULATION OF THE OUTSIDE FASADES, WITH THE GABLES ABOVE THE WINDOWS AND THE MAIN GATE, WHITH THE STONE JOINT COAT OF ARMS OF VĚŽNÍK AND HIS WIFE, SILVIA FROM KLEBELSBERG. THE STONE STATUE OF THE VIRGIN MARY WAS ERECTED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FRONT COURT, IN FRONT OF THE CASTLE GATE.

IN 1764 THE TŘEBEŠICE ESTATE, TOGETHER WITH NOVÉ DVORY, WERE BOUGHT BY THE COUNT JAN KAREL, OF THE RICH CHOTEK FAMILY, WHO OWNED IT FOR SEVERAL GENERATIONS. THE CHOTEKS NEVER LIVED HERE, THOUGH, AS THEY PREFERRED TO USE THE CASTLE IN NOVÉ DVORY AND, SINCE 1823, THE LARGE AND LUXURIOUS NEW MANOR IN EMPIRE STYLE THEY HAD BUILT IN KAČINA (9 KM FROM TŘEBEŠICE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND WORTH A VISIT). SINCE 1764 THEN, THE TŘEBEŠICE CASTLE WAS ONLY USED BY THEIR MANAGERS, AS THE CENTRE OF A LARGE ESTATE OF MORE THAN 1.000 HECTARS, AND THE BUILDING OF COURSE STARTED TO DECAY.

DURING THE XVIII CENTURY A NICE, LARGE STONE GRANARY WAS BUILT, ON 4 WOODEN FLOORS, AND TO THE MIDDLE OF XIX CENTURY – BUILT UNDER THE ENLIGHTED CHOTEK OWNERSHIP – DATE MOST OF THE OTHER FARM BUILDINGS: THE OLD STABLES, WITH LOW BRICK VAULTS TODAY PARTLY IN RUIN, AND THE OTHER BARNS, INCLUDING THE LARGE BARN (80 BY 15 MTS) WHICH IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE LARGEST AND NICEST IN BOHEMIA.

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FROM BAROQUE TO XIX CENTURY