Content Blog - Konopiste

Konopiste was the hunting lodge of Franz Ferdinand located in the hills of Czech Republic.  Franz Ferdinand lived at the castle during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  The outside of the castle is beautiful because it is a simple cream color home surrounded by forests, hills, and lakes.  However the inside of the castle is extremely gothic.  The walkway is adorned with Franz Ferdinand's hunting trophies.  He had a collection of 4,000 dead animals decorating this hallway and I felt extremely uncomfortable, overwhelmed, and terrified while walking through the hallway.  The rooms in the castle were decorated with baroque style furniture and many paintings of family members.  The presence of the Empire was inside this castle because they had the same dishes and silverware as the Hofburg Palace.  Konopiste was extremely gothic because it was filled with trophies of death and the amount of dead animals was sublime because the hallway seemed to be endlessly decorated with them.  This castle is important because it shows the true nature of Franz Ferdinand.  He was a psychopath and he suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder.  This truth of Franz Ferdinand is rarely seen but this castle proves that his dark nature did exist.