Dobříš chateau's furniture not be returned to Colloredo-Mansfelds

By ČTK / Published 25 July 2008 Brno, July 24 (CTK) - The historical furniture from the Dobříš chateau, central Bohemia, will remain in state hands as the Constitutional Court rejected a complaint by the former owners from the Colloredo-Mansfeld noble family, who had already received the chateau, the Aktualne.cz server reported Thursday. The court's verdict has definitively ended the dispute about the chateau's interior furnishing. The chateau's owner, Jerome Colloredo-Mansfeld, has claimed 3000 items the cultural value of which is incalculable. However, heritage protectors have put it at dozens of millions of crowns for the insurance purposes. The Dobris chateau was returned to the heirs in the 1990s, but the heritage protection authority then refused to return its furniture and the courts confirmed this stance. The... [read full story]