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Vysoká Manor House
Bílková, Inka Jindřiška ; Županič, Jan (advisor) ; Jirásková, Věra (referee)
Vysoka Manor House ABSTRACT This thesis follows up the story of the Vysoka Manor House with Antonin Dvorak Memorial. The aim of the thesis is to create komplex story of the manor, its history and present too, present the background of the era, when the Manor was built, and name personalities related to this place and how They lived here. History of Vysoká dates back to 14th century. Later in 19th century there comes the count Vaclav Robert Kounic who hired czech builder and later Prague mayor Cenek Gregor to create neorenessaince designed manor house. This achitectural style was used a lot in 19th century. The appearence of the manor house has been preserved without big changes. Thanks to the count Kounic many important personalities as politicians, authors etc. came to Vysoka. Kounic married the actress Josefina Cermakova who was sister in law of the composer Antonin Dvorak. Thanks to him there came also personalities related to music area. Dvorak loved surrounding contryside. It was strong inspiration for his work. Numeber of his masterpieces were composed here. At the beginning Dvorak was Kounics' guest later he accepted count's offer and made own house in Vysoka, that is know as Villa Rusalka. Count Kounic definitely left Vysoka in 1905. There are new owners of the manor house: dr. Zak and later the...

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2 BÍLKOVÁ, Iva
4 BÍLKOVÁ, Ivana
4 Bílková, Ivana
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