📜 A historic landscape park adjacent to Třeboň Castle, founded in 1602.
🌳 Explore its rich history and diverse collection of notable trees.
🏰 Discover a park that has evolved over 400 years, from a Renaissance garden to its current landscape form.
🌲 Admire unique tree species including a double-trunked plane tree, an ancient oak (466 cm circumference), and a massive white willow.
🚶♀️ Enjoy a peaceful stroll through beautifully maintained grounds, recently reconstructed in 2019-2020.
📚 Learn about its fascinating past, including its use for garden parties and transformations under various noble families.
🌳 The park boasts a variety of significant trees:
🌿 A double-trunked plane tree and a hornbeam near the castle courtyard entrance.
🌲 An impressive oak with a very tall trunk (466 cm circumference) in the northern part.
💧 A massive white willow (Salix alba) by the outlet of the Svět pond.
🍃 Other species include black birch (Betula nigra), Veitch's fir (Abies veitchii), "snake spruce" (Picea abies 'Virgata'), dwarf and variegated Japanese thuja (Thujopsis dolabrata 'Variegata Nana'), Canadian hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), Caucasian wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia), and Amur maple (Acer ginnala).
📜 The garden's history began in the late 16th century between Třeboň Castle and the Svět pond dam.
👑 Expanded and modified in 1602 by Petr Vok, who built a lavish wooden gazebo ('lusthaus') for garden parties.
⚔️ Destroyed during the Bohemian Revolt, it later served as a utility orchard.
🌳 Under the Schwarzenbergs, a new garden design began in 1674, transforming into a landscape park in the early 19th century at the initiative of Princess Paulina ze Schwarzenbergu.
📏 Reached its current size in the 1860s and 70s, despite suffering damage from floods in 1890 and 2002.
🛠️ Neglected after World War II, it housed a football field before undergoing regenerations in 1964–1967, a major reconstruction in 1987–1995, and the most recent reconstruction from 2019 to 2020.