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Region: Jablonecko Region
Harrachov - the manor house
Harrachov Manor House is located in the very centre of Harrachov.
This state-protected monument is located on the north side of the road.
There used to be another manor house in Harrachov, but it burned down and was not rebuilt.
The so-called manor house, built in Baroque style, is associated with the year 1712. The local glassmaker Josef Müller built a glassworks here. His descendant Jan Josef Müller sold the glassworks and the house to Count “Harrach” in 1764. The history of the manor house, later considered a chateau by the Harrachs, lasted almost two centuries.
After the Second World War, the confiscated property became the property of the state. The glassworks was purchased in 1993 by the current owner, JUDr. František Novosad. He relocated the "glass treasure" to the manor house, which became part of the museum. The building was used as the Municipal Museum of Glass, now the Novosad & Son Museum of Glass, which is open every day from 9 am to 5 pm.
Among other exhibits, it houses collections from a secret room that was created in 1938. The owner at the time, Jan Nepomuk Antonín Count Harrach, hid the most valuable exhibits of the glass sample room in it, fearing that the advancing German troops would confiscate them. The room was only discovered in the 1970s by workers during the reconstruction of the building, and some of the found objects were unfortunately used as gifts during visits of prominent communist guests to the glassworks.
The building of the Harrachov chateau is one-storey, longitudinal, with a now reconstructed facade. In the middle of the western side there is a bay.
GPS: 50.78217579527308, 15.418891947210884
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