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Café
In June 2006, we have opened a café in one of the garden houses in the external courtyards. We named it Kavárna u Jana's Café, by the patron of the Wroclaw Bishops, John the Christener. Here, the visitors can spend a pleasant time waiting for the castle tour.
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Gas Lights
In the castle Jánský Vrch, gas illumination of the interiors and the courtyard has been preserted. This is a technical-arts rarity, exceptional in Central Europe. Gas supply was installed already in 1906 and gas chandeliers and lamps were used till 1932. In that year, the castle was partially electrified, but the gas lights were still used in all rooms where the gas was available till 1945. In 2001, we succeeded in reconstructing seven of the gas lamps in the external courtyard.
Water Supply
The oldest water pipeline was built already under Bishop Hohenloh, that was at the end of the 18th century. Of course it was renovated several times. From the last renewal in the beginning of the 20th century come beautiful wash-basins that you can see during the tour .
Dome Opening at the tower of the Castle Jánský Vrch
In this year, demanding repairs of the facade on the northeast and east side together with the clock tower are taking place. Since September, the complete castle tower has been going through complete reconstruction. The „poppy head“ (dome) with the pole and flag, the numbers and the arms will also be newly gilded. These jobs will be performed in the workshop of Mr. Jaroslava Křížkek, so all the parts had to be removed.
The taking-off of the dome was not simple and took more than one hour. There was one shot hole in it, but we found no bullet shell inside.
There were 2 tubes inside, a smaller and larger one. The smaller one contained a report (on grease paper) about the dome's new installation on June 13., 1930 by the whitesmiths Otto Wolf and Josef Winkler.
In the larger tube, we found the following documents: work report from May 26, 1897 from Josef Reitmeier, a list of repair craftsmen participating in the repairs on April 26, 1897 from Theodor Kunz, the fairy tale „Was der Turmknopf erzählte“, whose author is the Town Chronicler Dr. Adolf Paupie. Furthermore a protocol from May 8, 1930 when the dome was removed for the last time. Its contents were investigated and the following persons were listed as witnesses: the chronicler Adolf Paupie , the controller Max Müller, the recorder Rudolf Hofmann, the porter Johann Heimann, the castle helper Karl Haucke, the whitesmith master Otto Wolf and his helpers. The last document found was the protocol from June 6,1930, created by the committee at the occassion of the dome's reinstallation. It included a memorial record on parchment.
The large casette also contained 2 metal pads. The first one is made of copper on the front and bears the name: Alois Utner – master carpenter who did the necessary repair work on the tower in 1852. On the back part, there is the inscription: Franz Pohler, master whitesmith, sohn of Casp. Pohler. He covered the tower and put on the dome on May 29, 1852. The second pad is made of lead, with the inscription: Kasper Pohler, master whitesmith, uncovered the tower in 1897, removed the dome on December 2nd and put it on again on December 13.
Furthermore, there were several coins in the big box, divided into paper envelopes in the sequence they had been put in.
The envelope with the inscription „anno 1800“ contained 27 coins: small Prussian coins from 1770 to 1797, the Maria two-sou coin from 1681, a non-identified silver coin from Poland, Saxony and Braunschweig (1708-1794), furthermore coins from the time of Maria Theresia (1761), Joseph II. (1790) and Franz II.(1800). Besides these, there were a tag, a cross and a 2 pearls in the envelope.
The second envelope was marked only with the numbers 15+2, has probably been laid in in 1852 and contained 17 coins: 1 Polish coin from 1839 and Austrian coins from the time of Joseph II. (1790), Franz II. (1800,1812,1816,1826,1835) and František Josef I. (paper bills of 10 and 6 kreutzer from 1849 and coins from 1851).
The third envelope was inscribed with the year 1897 and the text that the coins had been laid in on May 31 at the opportunity of the dome's reinstallation after the necessary removal of the Emperor's tower pole, the dome and the flag. 14 coins were in it: 9 coins of Austrian money from 1854 to 1881 and 5 coins of the crown money from 1893 to 1895.
The last envelope was put inside in 1930. It was unmarked and contained a total of 8 Czechoslovak coins: 5,10,20 and 50 haler coins of 1921 to 1928, a one-crown coin of 1924, 2 five-crown coins from 1926 and 1930 and a ten-crown coin with the picture of T.G.Masaryk from 1928.
According to the stored record from 1930, an envelope from 1852 with the inscription „Anno 1852 von Seiner Eminenc“ containing a golden ducat and a silver half-taler of the Wroclaw Bishop Josef Christian Prince of Hohenlohe and Bartenstein from 1796 should have been in the dome too. These coins were a present from Cardinal Melchior, Holy Lord of Diepenbrock, Wroclaw Bishop (1845-1853). The last coinage in this envelope should have been the silver memory medal of Pope Pius IX., issued in the sixth year of his Pontificate 1851, showing the bridge Albano et Aricia Ponte. However, this envelpe was not found in the tubes. It will probably remain a mystery, how it could have goten lost. Already 77 years have passed since the previous opening, the witnesses are not alive anymore. In any case, it is hard to imagine that anyone could have stolen the coins from the dome after 1930, as it is factically inaccessible. It must also be noted that this is no unique case. Some years ago, the bridge in to Podolí region was repaired. A golden coin should have been in the found box, however, after the opening, there was none.
