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Lužec Chateau

The history of Lužec Chateau started to be written about 600 years ago. Chateau was built on the basis of a royal decree of the Czech King Charles IV in the 14th century as a place where he could spend the night and take shelter from the weather during the royal hunts. Later the chateau was used for strategic placement of Jan Žižka’s army fighting the Crusaders, and it was also used as a laboratory of the Czech King Rudolph II who was attempting to invent the elixir of life in its halls.

The period after World War I is the period of boom at Luzhec Chateau when the local rich benefactor, Paul Albrecht Veinkauf, enthralled with the old tales and surrounding nature, charged the well-known Munich architect Brendel in 1919 to rebuild the old hunting lodge into a new chateau. Later, after the death of this magnate, the chateau was transferred into the ownership of a health insurance company which established a sanatorium there.

The spa of Karlovy Vary history is inseparably tied with World War II and the Fascist occupation as well. Luckily though, the town met with special favour of the German generals, and meritorious Luftwaffe pilots as well as Herman Goering himself were treated in the Lužec Chateau. During 1945 and after the war the Czech and Slovak political elites enjoyed their recreation here. Afterwards, the spa was made accessible to the wide public of Czechoslovakia.

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Lužec 1 362 25 Nová Role Okres Karlov Vary
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