Castle Schonborn
Schönborn Castle - the pearl of the Carpathians
The refined silhouette of the Schönborn Palace with slender Gothic towers in the Beregvar tract floats out of the emerald forest thickets, like a fairy mirage. Count Schönborn-Buchheim built the Schönborn castle in the Carpathians from 1890 to 1895. Initially, a wooden summer residence of such a famous family stood on the site of a modern castle, and 50 years later a majestic palace in the neo-romanticism style was erected. The palace began its history with a small wooden house, which dates back to 1840. It was located in the Beregvar tract, which was owned by the counts of Shenborny. Accordingly, it is called differently. And the castle itself, which you can see with your own eyes, built by the Earl of the Schönborn family, Erwin Friedrich Schönborn-Buchheim in 1890-1895. During the construction of the castle, the astronomical system known at that time was used. The number of windows corresponded to the number of days in a year, the number of rooms was equal to the number of weeks, and twelve exits from the castle symbolized twelve months. The windows and doors were adorned with elaborate stained-glass windows based on biblical stories. Four towers towered over the palace, which differ in shape and size. Each tower was crowned with a weather vane. Now the territory of the castle is surrounded by an excellent garden, laid out in the middle of the 19th century. The real decoration of the garden is a small lake, the contours of which repeat the map of the past Austro-Hungarian Empire. Currently, in the garden you can see rare varieties of decorative trees: boxwood, Canadian spruce, catalpa, Weymouth pine, sakura, which Earl of Schönborn brought here in person, pink beech.