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MistresssAria -> OWK Closing??? (10/10/2008 1:22:40 AM)
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A friend sent me this and said it might close unless a new buyer decided to keep it up, is this true? That will be incredibly sad if it happens :(
Prague Daily Monitor.
Prague, Sept 8 (CTK) - The sadomasochist "paradise," established in a
chateau in the village of Cerna,
south Moravia, 12 years ago, has been up for sale for over eight
million euros since the summer, the
daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) reported Monday.
Cerna Mayor Vitezslav Plocek confirmed it to the paper, but he added
that the municipality would not
try to buy it.
Consequently, the facility, well-known in the sadomasochist community
all over the world, is to be
closed soon, the paper says.
The real estate agency that has published an ad for the sale of the
centre officially used for
accommodation, catering and relaxation has so far registered one
potential bidder, broker Adela
Cihelkova told the paper.
HN writes that Cerna, a little village in the rather conservative
Vysocina region, has become famous
abroad thanks to the bizarre "Other World Kingdom" in the chateau
from 1580.
The kingdom, ruled by a "queen," has its own strict laws as well as a
special currency.
The chateau has served as a hotel offering its sadomasochist guests
whatever they may dream about,
and it has also been used as a location for shooting films of this
kind.
More details on the chateau's services can be found on its website
that has been visited by some 27
million people. It informs, among others, that a night in a dog-
kennel costs 250 euros, while a guest to
one of the most expensive rooms spends about 1000 euros per night.
In the past, the chateau hosted glamorous festivities with fireworks
as well as the world championship in
ponyboy ride (riding teams of people instead of horses).
HN writes that the whole 30,000-hectare complex, including a private
restaurant and a lake, is
surrounded by heavy walls and protected by a camera-monitoring system.
The chateau was confiscated by the communist regime in the 1950s.
Until its collapse 40 years later it
was administered by a local agricultural cooperative that opened a
hall for cultural and social events as
well as a farm kitchen there.
In the early 1990s, the premises were returned to the heirs of the
original owner who sold it immediately,
HN recalls.
Villagers only gradually uncovered for what purposes the chateau
served when they met its guests
dressed in special outfits, HN notes.
Moreover, after the new owners closed the chateau to the public, the
villagers lost the chapel on its
premises where they used to go to pray, so the municipal authority
had to build a new modern church at
the village square, HN adds.
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