Sychrov (german: Sichrow) is a municipality and village in

Liberec District Liberec District ( cs, okres Liberec) is the district (''okres'') within the Liberec Region of Czech Republic. As its name implies, its administrative center is the city of Liberec. Complete list of municipalities Bílá (Liberec District), Bílá ...

in the

Liberec Region Liberec Region ( cs, Liberecký kraj, german: Reichenberger Region, pl, Kraj liberecki) is an administrative unit (Czech: ''kraj'') of the Czech Republic, located in the northernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia. It is named after i ...

of the

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. It has about 200 inhabitants. It is known for the

Sychrov Castle Sychrov Castle can be found near the village Sychrov in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It is a unique example of Neo-Gothic castle architecture from the second half of the 19th century. A large park surrounds the castle. History Since ...

Administrative parts

Villages of Radostín, Sedlejovice, Třtí and Vrchovina are administrative parts of Sychrov.

Geography

Sychrov is located about south of

Liberec Liberec (; german: Reichenberg ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants and it is the fifth-largest city in the country. It lies on the Lusatian Neisse, in a basin surrounded by mountains. The city centre is well preser ...

. It lies in the

Jičín Uplands Jičín (; german: Jitschin or ''Gitschin'') is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation. Th ...

. The Mohelka River flows through the municipality.

History

The first written mention of Sychrov (under the name ''Svojkov'') is from 1367. A fort was first documented in the 15th century. In the 17th century, the village disappeared and the fort was replaced by a small

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

castle named Sychrov, which was built in 1690–1693. The newly established village got its name after the castle. The

was reconstructed in the

Empire style The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 durin ...

and expanded in 1834.

Sights

Sychrov is known for the

. It gained its present appearance between 1847 and 1862, when it was rebuilt in the romantic neo-Gothic style. Today, the castle is open to the public and offers several sightseeing tours. The castle complex includes a large English-style park with an

orangery An orangery or orangerie was a room or a dedicated building on the grounds of fashionable residences of Northern Europe from the 17th to the 19th centuries where orange and other fruit trees were protected during the winter, as a very large ...

. The park was gradually established between 1820 and 1855.

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* {{authority control Villages in Liberec District