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19-607: The Colloredo family is originally from Colloredo di Monte Albano , Italy, where they owned numerous estates. According to family tradition, it descends from the Swabian Lords of Waldsee . Allegedly, Liebhart ( Liobardo ) of Waldsee came to Italy attending King Conrad II and about 1031 was enfeoffed by Patriarch Poppo of Aquileia with Mels Castle near Udine in Friuli . His descendants from 1309 onwards built Colloredo Castle as their residence. The Waldsee lineage however

38-752: A discovery of extraordinary importance, worthy of adequate conservation and enhancement. This article on a location in Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zbiroh Zbiroh ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈzbɪrox] ) is a town in Rokycany District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic . It has about 2,500 inhabitants. The villages of Chotětín, Jablečno, Přísednice and Třebnuška are administrative parts of Zbiroh. Zbiroh

57-468: A sheet of lead of approximately 3x6 cm, broken in two and pierced in the centre, engraved with the inscription COMMODO CERIALIS VITIS SETINA which refers to a label for wine or vines from Setia and identifies the year by the name of the two consuls in office in 106 AD, Lucius Ceionus Commodus and Sextus Vettulenus Civica Cerialis . The vines grown in Sezze (Setia), a town in the province of Latina located on

76-467: A wooden barrel identified by the label with the name of the consuls which attested to the year of production, or more likely for having received the cuttings to be planted in a new vineyard. Another surprise was that inside two rooms, substantial piles of bovine bones were found, even a whole carcass, almost as if the animals, at least five, had still been buried with the meat; subsequent analyses have showed that they had only been skinned and dehorned. There

95-588: Is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia , located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Trieste and about 14 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of Udine . The Roman villa at Muris has recently been discovered nearby. Starting from the 11th century, it was a fief of the Viscounts of Mels, who had received it from

114-767: Is disputed today. The house was elevated to the noble rank of Freiherr by the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II in 1588 and became Reichsgraf in 1724. In 1634 two Colloredo brothers were granted Opočno Castle in Bohemia by Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor . Rudolph Joseph von Colloredo (1706-1788), Vice-Chancellor of Empress Maria Theresa , was appointed Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1763. The Colloredo-Mansfeld line emerged when his son Franz de Paula Gundakar von Colloredo married Princess Maria Isabella of Mansfeld in 1771 and

133-539: Is located about 18 kilometres (11 mi) northeast of Rokycany and 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Plzeň . It lies in the Křivoklát Highlands . The highest point is the Kohoutov hill at 596 m (1,955 ft) above sea level. The stream Zbirožský potok flows through the town. The first written mention of Zbiroh is from 1230. It was a market village which was promoted to a market town in 1369. During

152-631: The Beneš decrees . They emigrated to Canada and the US. Their only remaining possession was Gstatt forest estate in Austria that they had purchased in 1929, while a younger branch still owns Sierndorf in Austria (purchased in 1756). Parts of the Colloredo's possessions, among them Dobříš Castle and Zbiroh Castle and their farmlands, were restored by the Czech Republic to Jerome Colloredo-Mansfeld (who sold

171-656: The Counts of Tyrol . In 1420, together will all Friuli, the hamlet was acquired by the Republic of Venice . In 1976 the town was severely damaged by the Friuli earthquake . The 19th century writer Ippolito Nievo lived and wrote his novels in the castle of Colloredo (still now property of the Nievo counts). Recent excavations gave some unexpected surprises. The most sensational find has no comparison with anything similar preserved in museums or in collections of antiquities:

190-673: The Kingdom of Bavaria . The Prince purchased in 1804 a portion of the County of Limpurg known as the Lordship of Limpurg-Gröningen; this was mediatised by the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806. In the Second Czechoslovak Republic about half of the family possessions of 60,000 hectares of forests and farmland was expropriated during a land reform . Under German occupation ( Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ), when

209-610: The Colloredos who had become Czechoslovak citizens refused to become Germans, their remaining estates were confiscated by the Nazis and some of the nephews of prince Joseph II. (who lived in Paris) were arrested for slave work, others emigrated. After World War II , the family returned but only to face arrest and torture again, and subsequently expulsion from Czechoslovakia where they were again expropriated, this time "as Germans" under

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228-528: The heights overlooking the Pontine Marshes , produced a highly appreciated wine in antiquity, mentioned by Pliny the Elder , Strabo , Stazio, Silio Italico, Celio Aureliano, Juvenal , but it is above all Martial who exalts and remember in thirteen epigrams; from him we learn that it was a red wine. In emperor Trajan 's era the villa rustica of Moruzzo had to do with a fine wine, perhaps delivered in

247-756: The latter and left the first to his nephew Jerome  [ cs ] ). Opočno Castle was returned to prince Joseph III's daughter Kristina Colloredo-Mansfeld. A high court decision however forced her to give the castle back to the State while she was allowed to keep the farmland. A lawsuit over the arts collection at Opočno Castle is still pending. Countess Kristina is living in Opočno and in Gstatt, Austria. The family now owns again about 20,000 of their original 60,000 hectares. Colloredo di Monte Albano Colloredo di Monte Albano ( Friulian : Colorêt di Montalban )

266-494: The legions from the East, but with the soldiers also came the scourge of the plague, which infected men and animals. These two elements, the fear of new invasions and the epidemic, could explain the progressive downsizing of the housing structures of the farm which was depopulating and the burial of the whole animals because they were infected, removing only what was possible to use without health risks. The villa of Moruzzo constitutes

285-759: The rule of the Rosenberg family , Zbiroh developed and acquired various rights. In 1897, Zbiroh was promoted to a town by Franz Joseph I . The first kill house in Czechoslovakia was built in 1947 in a police school in Zbiroh by World War II veterans of the Czechoslovak Army that had been trained in Great Britain. There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality. The D5 motorway from Prague to Plzeň runs south of

304-485: The town just outside the municipal territory. The most important monument is the Zbiroh Castle. The original Romanesque-Gothic castle was built at the end of the 12th century or in the early 13th century, and belongs to the oldest aristocratic residences in the country. At the end of the 16th century, it was rebuilt into its current appearance of a large Renaissance castle. The landmark of the original castle part

323-482: Was able to inherit her family's Bohemian estates with Dobříš Castle upon the extinction of the dynasty's male line in 1780, while the original Mansfeld possessions passed to the Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg . The union of the houses of Colloredo and Mansfeld was officially approved by decree of Emperor Joseph II in 1789; the decree used the spelling Colloredo-Mannsfeld whilst the spelling Colloredo-Mansfeld

342-580: Was more common. In 1803 Prince Franz Gundakar purchased a part of the County of Rieneck from the House of Nostitz because its Imperial immediacy granted him a seat in the Imperial Diet , although he never moved there. In 1806 this territory was mediatised by the Archbishop of Regensburg , Karl Theodor von Dalberg , as part of his Principality of Aschaffenburg . In 1815 Rieneck was annexed by

361-711: Was no trace of fire or sudden abandonment, and the other finds were very few: pottery shards, a few handles and an amphora cap, a broken oil lamp, a billhook, part of a fibula, a balance weight, some coins of little value. In 168-170 AD the Roman Empire, at the peak of its power, suffered a very serious setback when the Germanic tribes of the Quadi and Marcomanni overwhelmed the legionary defenses near Vienna and arrived in Italy to raid and loot. Emperor Marcus Aurelius recalled

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