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seemingly interfered with the overall impression. The corbels, small bays, variously sized and diversely arched windows were to be replaced by a somewhat monotonous façade punctuated by large ‘Renaissance’ windows with stone jambs. The design, in which Keyser applied his ‘conservationist’ approach, was to highlight the part of the castle that housed the chapel. With respect to its indisputable historical and architectural value, the architect decided to emphasise the presence of the sacral space by a markedly elevated roof with a ridge turret, a newly built bow window and unplastered stone masonry, whose impressive architectural forms were presumably inspired by the theoretical works of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Although partial modifications, for instance construction of a winding staircase, finishing works on the chapel and building of the so-called ‘elevator room’, went on virtually until the beginning of World War I, the reconstruction of the castle based on Carl Gangolf Kayser’s plans was concluded in the autumn of 1898. Immediately afterwards, the Prince began to furnish the castle with works of art coming from purchases, auctions and the princely ancestral gallery. The Prince intended to open parts of the castle to the public as an ancestral museum. After his death in 1929, the ancestral properties were assumed by his brother, Franz I of Liechtenstein (1853–1838), who, due to his advanced age, gradually handed the whole agenda over to his assumed heirs from the secondary family line residing at the chateau in Velké Losiny. As early as 1930, Prince Franz Joseph II (1906–1989) was appointed to act as his authorized representative and Franz Joseph’s father, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein (1873–1955), also had a substantial influence over the ancestral property. It was probably Aloys of Liechtenstein who gave impetus for the last major reconstruction of the castle, taking place at the turn of the years 1929 and 1930 and involving a few none too substantial architectural modifications designed by the Šternberk architect Osvald Veith. After 1907, a new park was laid out at the castle, based on a plan by the distinguished garden architect Albert Esch (1883–1954). he last private residents at the castle were Prince Johann Franz of Liechtenstein (1910–1975) with his wife Karoline Ledebur-Wicheln (1912–1996) and their growing family. In the