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3 unusual facts about Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn


Alessandro Poglietti

Poglietti also had friends among Austrian nobility, among them Count Anton Franz von Collalto and Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, Prince-Bishop of Olomouc—in 1672 Poglietti inherited estates near their residences.

Carpoforo Tencalla

Episcopal palace of the Prince-Bishop Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1664–1695) in Kroměříž: the architect was his brother Giovanni P. Tencalla, who invited him to do extensive frescoes and paintings.

Ignazio Albertini

He may have been born in Milan, but first surfaces in Vienna, in a letter exchange between the famous violinist Johann Heinrich Schmelzer of the Viennese court and Karl II von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, Prince-Bishop of Olomouc.


Bílá Voda

Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, the later Bishop of Olomouc, established a Piarist college on his inherited Bílá Voda estates in 1723, a response to the 1707 Convention of Altranstädt granting religious freedom to the Silesian Protestants.


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