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autumn of 1944, the most important items were moved from the castle to the safety of the Liechtenstein Principality and after 1945, the castle was appropriated by the Czechoslovak state. The run-down castle, damaged by the events of the war, was then modified and its original equipment underwent restoration treatment; in the summer of 1948 it was open to the public. Owing to the high quality of its collections, particularly the Italian, German and Dutch Renaissance and Baroque paintings, the castle in Šternberk ranks among Moravia’s most important historical monuments.

Na následující dvoustraně: Balthasar van der Veen, Pohled na město, detail, kolem 1650, SH Šternberk