Okoř is a castle on a low rocky promontory in
Okoř
Okoř is a municipality and village in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
Etymology
The name is derived from the personal name Okora.
Geography
Okoř is located about north ...
, north-west of
Prague, about from the city centre, in the
Central Bohemian Region of the
Czech Republic.
In 1228 a stronghold was built in the small hamlet of Okoř. It was later modified into a
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
castle, founded in 1359 by Frantisek Rokyčansky, a wealthy burgher of Prague's Old Town. It was later modified by comprehensive
Late Gothic
International Gothic is a period of Gothic art which began in Burgundy, France, and northern Italy in the late 14th and early 15th century. It then spread very widely across Western Europe, hence the name for the period, which was introduced by t ...
remodelling by the Lords of Donin.
[Klára Benešovská (2001)]
''Architecture of the Gothic''
Prague Castle Administration, p. 211. In 1518, during the reign of Bořitas of Martinice, the castle was turned into a residence in the
Renaissance style.
During the
Thirty Years' War the castle was heavily damaged and then restored in the
Baroque
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style. It underwent further extension in the second half of the 15th century, and in the 17th century it was owned by
Jesuits. Following their departure after the Jesuit order was discontinued in
Bohemia
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, the Okoř castle became deserted in the late 18th century and slowly began to deteriorate.
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Buildings and structures completed in 1228
Prague-West District
Castles in the Central Bohemian Region
Ruined castles in the Czech Republic
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