LOCATION
The Summer-house Bellarie is situated between two tree wings on the west side of a small parterre that is situated at the garden´s cross axis. The elongated eight-sided building with an opened gallery on the floor marks the end of the double garden terrace.
DESCRIPTION
The two-floor summer-house has an attic roof covered by shingles. The roof is also decorated by 2 copper vases and 2 dormer - windows with so called ox-eyes (oval window holes). There is marked use of a double winded stairway with forged railing on the south facade, and the summer-house´s facade is plastically divided by pink ribbonwork between the windows.
Plaster window sills are decorated by white areas with motives running horizontally, while ribbonworks around the arcade windows of the upper gallery floor are decorated by scrolls. The flat and depressed parts of the facade are a grey dovelike colour.
The upper part of facade is ended by a cavetto window sill. The stock of the summer-house, the upper rectangular terrace, is accessible by two framed stairways.
The supporting walls of the terrace and stairways are divided by pilasters, while the balustrade along the terrace´s periphery and stairways is decorated by plaster scrolls. All plastic parts are white while the rest of the area is in dovelike grey colour.
The lower terrace with supporting walls of rubble masonry is accessible by 2 cranked coach ramps from the parterre´s side. There is a supporting stone wall on the lower terrace supplemented with a recess and little fountain visible from the summer-house. The edge of the south wall of this terrace and the supporting wall of coach ramps are topped by a stone profiled ledge.
Historical development of the construction
The predecessor of today´s summer-house, the pavillion on the elevated terrace by northwest wall of the garden, was created from 1690 to 1692.
Václav Kouba, a stone-breaker from Záluží, broke into rock cliffs for the summer-house\'s basis in 1690. The rough construction was already standing by autumn and the accounts inform us that the roof was covered by 8000 shingles.
The stuccoist Michael Bianco decorated the corners inside of the quadrature the next summer and created a monogram of the princely couple Johann Christian I. von Eggenberg and Marie Ernestine von Eggenberg on the ceiling. The building\'s gables were decorated with vegetable motifs and fruits.