The Strmol castle interiors before 1945 and after

Abstract

In 1936, the wealthy Ljubljana industrialist Rado Hribar bought the completely emptied castle of Strmol and equipped it with period furniture and with small precious inventory, which he was purchasing in antique shops and at auctions, and according to recent data, from the Velesovo church and monastery. The luxurious castle interiors survived untouched after the liquidation of the wedded pair Rado and Ksenija Hribar in 1944, the maelstroms of war; thus, Strmol is one among few Slovene castles that preserved after 1945 the equipment of the last lord of the castle, and became state facility of the Yugoslav and later of the Slovene governments.