Rosice Castle

The chateau is located in the town of Rosice, only 25 km west of Brno. It stands on the site of a former castle, the remains of which have been preserved inside the chateau body. This manor house was inhabited, built, rebuilt and lived in by the Hecht families of Rosice, Žerotín, Werdenberg, Hausperský of Fanal, Ugarte, Sin, among others. The last aristocratic owner, Baron Mořic Arnold Deforest, was from the Deforest-Bischofsheim family.

Princely Castle in Żagan

Called the pearl of the Baroque of the Lubuskie Region, built in the 17th century, surrounded by a historic English park. At present, it serves as a public and cultural center.

Baroque Spa Kuks – Hospital

Kuks was part of the Choustníkovo Hradiště estate. On November 15, 1664, the manor was bought from Margrave Leopold of Baden by the general of the Austrian cavalry, Jan Spork, for a price of 66,000 guldens. In 1684, the administration of the manor was taken over by the general’s older son, František Antonín Count Špork. At that time, Kuks was known only for its mineral springs. Spork set himself a highgoal, to make Kuks a spa at the highest world level. He succeeded, because the Kuks spa surpassed even the famous Karlovy Vary with its grandeur. The art-loving Count F.A. Spork surrounded himself with a retinue of artists, the most important of which are, for example, his court engraver Michael Heinrich Rentz, engraver Josef de Montalegre, painter Petr Jan Brandl and German poet Johann Christian Günther. The fame of the Kuks spa lasted a little over 30 years. After the death of F.A. Sporck in 1738, the spa activity slowly subsided. In 1740, Kuks was hit by a flood, which damaged the spa buildings by the shore, destroyed the breeding grounds, the gazebo and the summer house, and took with it the dwarves. Sporck’s successors were not interested in the restoration and further operation of the spa, and therefore the once important social and cultural center became a village of craftsmen and farmers. The uninhabited Sporck chateau burned down in 1896 and in 1901 the ruins of the chateau were torn down together with the ruins of the spa buildings. During the Second World War, the hospital was established as a home for the Hitler Youth for the Sudetenland region. In the 50s and 70s of the 20th century, part of the hospital premises served as an internal hospital for old age diseases and part of the hospital was used as a Regional Archive. At present, the national cultural monument Hospital Kuks is subject to national monument care.

Bojnice Castle

Bojnice Castle is a romantic chateau with a partially preserved originally Gothic and Renaissance foundation of the castle. It is located in the Trenčín Region and lies on the western outskirts of the town of Bojnice. The chateau is visible from most of the upper Ponitří

Bojnice Castle

Bojnice Castle is a romantic chateau with a partially preserved originally Gothic and Renaissance foundation of the castle. It is located in the Trenčín Region and lies on the western outskirts of the town of Bojnice. The chateau is visible from most of the upper Ponitří

Grand Viglas

Slovak national cultural monument Vígľaš Chateau, originally a royal castle from the 14th century in the Podpoliansky region, burned down in 1945. After that, it just fell into disrepair. However, during a generous reconstruction, it was transformed into a wellness hotel, which became the Building of the Year 2014 in an online public vote.

 

Banská Štiavnica – new castle

The New Chateau is a chateau in Banská Štiavnica. The chateau is a six-storey Renaissance building with four bastions and loopholes. It was built between 1564 and 1571 as a watchtower during the battles against the Turks. It is built on a hill in the city center

Konopiště Castle

It was founded as a medieval fortress by Tobias of Benešov. In its more than 700-year history , many important aristocratic families have been in possession – the Šternberks, the Hodějovský, the Vrtba, the Lobkowicz families. The castle got its current appearance at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when the castle was owned by Franz Ferdinand d ́Este, the heir to the Austrian throne, who rebuilt the Konopiště castle into a magnificent seat of the future emperor.

Konopiště preserves an extremely rich collection of arts and crafts from the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Modern periods. The famous Esthenian armoury, which the Archduke had transferred to Konopiště from his Modena heritage, stands out, and which is one of the most interesting in Europe. Of the interiors, the best are the representative salons on the first floor, such as the Reception Salon and the Column Salon, both with extremely valuable Italian cabinets from the 17th century.

 

Náchod Castle

Náchod Castle is a large building complex with five courtyards located on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. From a Gothic castle, founded in the middle of the 13th century, it was rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. It acquired its present architectural appearance during  reconstructions and interior modifications in the 17th and 18th centuries.  Among the most important owners of Náchod were the Smiřický family of Smiřice, the Italian family of Piccolomini, the Curonian family and the German princely family of Schaumburg-Lipp

Hrádek U Nechanic

The Hrádek u Nechanic Chateau was built as a representative and summer residence of the Harrach family in the years 1839 – 1857 by František Arnošt Count of Harrach (1799-1884), an important representative of the Jilemnice family line. A project developed by the English architect Edward Buckton Lamb (1805-1869) in the Tudor Gothic style served as a model for the construction of the romantic chateau. The construction work was led by the young Austrian architect Karl Fischer (1817-1856), who modified the plans and designed the decoration of the castle interiors. In addition to this equipment, made mainly by local craftsmen, a number of antiques were brought to the chateau, especially from Italy and Austria. Often these were  entire portals, ceilings or complete furnishings of the entire room. Simultaneously with the construction of the chateau, in 1844 a part of the surrounding forest was modified by the garden designer L. Krüger as a landscape park (18 ha) and a game preserve and pheasantry (200 ha) were established in the remaining part. In 1945 , the chateau was confiscated on the basis of the so-called Beneš Decrees. 

The current chateau exposition is an example of the living of the nobility in the second half of the 19th century in the original historical furnishings (representative rooms, the suite of the Count and Countess, a picture gallery, guest rooms , the chateau chapel).

The state chateau Hrádek u Nechanic was declared a National Cultural Monument in 2001 .
The chateau is managed by the National Heritage Institute, a contributory organization established by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.