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Chapter 10538 by two huge square pavilions; above the two principal floors these develop into ample octagonal towers. It is not clear whether the original plan included a repetition of these pavilions at the north- and southeast corners. The semi- circular courtyard seen in Vischer’s print is probably a relic of the earlier castle which was intended to be eventually replaced (is has been demolished since then).38 In her recent thesis on the castle of Uherčice in Moravia, restructured for Reichard’s brother Hanusch Wolfhart, Alena Skrabanek has compared the vari- ous projects undertaken by the Strein in these years. In an excursus she points out that in many of these projects various architectural details, in particular portals, are directly derived from illustrations in Serlio’s treatises.39 She makes 38 Though it might be worthwhile to consider whether it may have been the relic of a planned, but unfinished circular courtyard as at the Villa Madama, the Palace at Granada, and in several of Serlio’s palace projects. No remnants of this fabric appear to have survived. 39 Notably the portal of the church at Ferschnitz, the parish church next to Reichard’s prin- cipal seat at Freidegg, and where he arranged the tombs for himself and his two wives; Skrabanek 2008, Ch. 10.5. ‘Serliorezeption bei Bauten der Streun’ pp. 94–100. Figures 10.42–10.43 Sebastiano Serlio’s non-executed designs for the châteaux at Ancy- le- France (from the Sesto Libro) and Lourmarin (from the Settimo Libro). Figures 10.40–10.41 Schloss Schwarzenau: the one surviving bastion-like outbuilding.