Bítov Castle is a castle on a steep promotory towering above the meandering River Želetavka, near the Vranov reservoir, in the village of Bítov, some 25 kilometres northwest of Znojmo, Czech Republic. Built in the 11th century, Bítov is one of the oldest and largest Moravian castles.
A Přemyslid fortified settlement originally stood on the site and included the Chapel of Our Lady (Kostelík Panny Marie). The fort was rebuilt in the first half of the 13th century as an impregnable Gothic castle guarding the southern boundaries of the Přemyslid lands. In the 14th century a new inner ward was built along with Late Gothic fortifications. The Lords of Bítov became the new owners of the castle and based themselves here for four centuries. They carried out further improvements to the defensive capabilities of the castle.
Bítov finally underwent Baroque remodelling, and gained its present form at the beginning of the 19th century, when it passed into the hands of the Counts of Daun. The descendants of Marshal Daun, the famous military leader, rebuilt the castle in the spirit of the Romantic style. Between 1811 and 1845 the richly-decorated state rooms were created, on the basis of proposals of Anton Schuler. The culmination of the re-Gothicising work was the remodelling of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin (kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie) by Viennense architect Anton Rucker, who left the original Gothic furnishings. At the end of the 20th century, Bítov underwent extensive refurbishment.

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Cornštejn Castle (Czech: hrad Cornštejn or Cornštýn, Corštejn, Corštýn, German: Zornstein) is a castle near Bítov, 31 kilometres   west of Znojmo, in south-west Moravia, the Czech Republic.
It was built on royal demesne land which was subordinated to Bítov Castle and which was pawned and later (1308) granted as a fief to the noble family of Lichtenburg. In the 1320s Raimund of Lichtenburg, King Wenceslaus II’s favourite, decided to strengthen the security of Bítov Castle and the road connecting Bítov with Vranov Castle by building a fort – Zornstein / Cornštejn. After all, Raimund’s sons had to be provided for as well. According to the instrument issued by Moravian Margrave Charles on 31 May 1343, Raimund`s sons Smil and Czenek were allowed to divide their father’s domain with "Vethow" and "Czornstein" castles.

Cornštejn Castle

This Renaissance castle was built in place of a Gothic stronghold in the 16th century. After the World War II the large building became somehow dilapidated and is now being reconstructed – the tour shows the progress of reconstruction works. The castle is surrounded by a former Baroque garden and a large sylvan park.
http://south-moravia.info/

Uherčice Chateau

Vranov's location was first mentioned by Cosmas of Prague in 1100 as a border sentry castle (oppidum (et) castrum Wranou). It was built by the Dukes of Bohemia to defend the southern border of Moravia against raids from the neighbouring Austrian March. Until 1323 the castle was in royal hands but in that year king John of Bohemia pawned Vranov to a powerful Bohemian nobleman, the viceroy Jindřich of Lipá.
In 1421, during the disturbances of the Hussite Wars the Bohemian noble family of Lichtenburg took control of the castle and the contiguous market town. In 1499 it definitely passed on to Lichtenburgs as hereditary possession by the king Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary. The Lichtenburg family held Vranov for almost a century, until 1516.
In the 16th century, Vranov frequently changed the holders. Probably the most significant owners were lords from the Bavarian family of Althann, cousins of the Princes of Belmonte. Wolf Dietrich of Althann purchased the castle in 1614. 
Michael Johann II Althann recovered the Vranov estate for the family in 1680. He commissioned the famous Austrian architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach to design a grand hall, known as ‘the Hall of the Ancestors’ in the Baroque style as a memorial to his Althann ancestors. It was built between 1687 and 1695. It’s an oval construction surmounted by an imposing cupola and became a dominant feature of Vranov. An Austrian sculptor, Tobias Kracker, created large statues of the ancestors in niches around the walls and another Austrian artist, Johann Michael Rottmayr, painted an allegorical glorification of the Althann family in the cupola. To complement the Hall of the Ancestors with a spiritual element, Fischer von Erlach designed a Baroque chapel, the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, which incorporated an Althann family vault. The richly decorated chapel was built in two years (1699 and 1670). After the death of Michael Johann II Althann more grand buildings were constructed, completing the transformation of the original castle complex into an up-to-date Baroque chateau.

Vranov nad Dyjí Chateau

The chateau originated with the reconstruction of a squire's castle that was established most likely in the first half of the 13th century. During the war in 1943, the chateau served as a hiding place for Viennese art collections. It also served as a dormitory for students of the Vienna conservatory. In 1945, the chateau was seized, and the chateau buildings were utilised by the military for housing troops. After the barbaric devastation of the chateau with the silent approval of the army, entrepreneurial groups and organisations tried unsuccessfully to take possession the chateau complex, and so it was listed by the city as a vacant and abandoned structure at the turn of the 21st century. In 2012, the entire complex was symbolically transferred under a lease to the Cyriacs (the international non-government organisation of the Order of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Heart), who are repairing the chateau. 
http://region-vysocina.cz/

Jemnice Chateau

The chateau was built by Earl Jindřich Rudolf Schaumburk. For this project four burgess houses and a town hall were used. From 1947 the County museum was inside, and in 1969 it was integrated into the West Moravian (Západomoravské) museum in Třebíč, today called Museum of Vysočina. Today it serves as the Museum of Vanishing and Past Handicrafts.
http://visittrebic.eu/

Moravské Budějovice Chateau

Nový Hrádek was built at the behest of Margrave John Henry Luxembourg shortly after 1358. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the system of fortifications was strengthened and the so-called New Castle was constructed on a more advanced position. In 1645 it was taken and partially destroyed by the Swedes.
In the nineteenth century the Mniszeks as the new owners had the front part repaired for hunting and recreational purposes. Before the Second World War the castle served as a hostel for the Czech Tourism Club and after the war it was part of the so-called forbidden zone. Today it is open to the public as a national cultural monument surrounded by the exceptional landscape of the Podyjí National Park.
https://novy-hradek.eu/

Nový Hrádek Castle

The Old Castle was erected on the place of a medieval fortress constructed in the mid-15th century on the right shore of the Jevišovka river. In the late 16th century it was rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau and in the 1680s the then owner of the domain, Louis Raduit de Souches, made it rebuild in the Baroque style. The Moravian Museum has been the owner of the castle since 1880.
Due to the refurbishment, only the permanent exhibition in the Castle kitchen and the exhibition on Rock art are available to visitors since May 1, 2015. 
http://mzm.cz/

Jevišovice Castle

Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou Chateau ranks among the most robust architectural buildings dating from the first half of the 18th century in not only this country, but also throughout Europe. It gained its Baroque form between 1700 and 1737, when it was ruled by the Questenberg noble family. The plans for its new form were designed by the renowned Austrian architect Jakub Prandtauer. The chateau offers visitors two tours of its interior – the A route includes apartments furnished in the style of a Baroque noble family residence, including a music parlour, whereas the B route takes visitors through guestrooms and the kitchen. When taking the third route of the tour, you can visit the Baroque-styled interior of St Margaret’s temple. Permanent exhibitions are supplemented every year with interesting and engaging seasonal displays. Behind the chateau is a French-style garden which continues on the other side of the Rokytná River as a large English-style garden.
http://region-vysocina.cz/

Jaroměřice Chateau

The town received a new dominat structure formed by the Renaissance tower of the St. Lawrence church built by Francesco Garof de Bissone from Italy. The same architect was engaged by Oldřich Krajíř of Krajek to build a new chateau mentioned in Dačice records for the first time in 1591. The architecture of the chateau is inspired by north Italian town palaces with four wings enclosing a square courtyard. Its Renaissance origin is recalled by two storeys of arcade-loggias in the main northern wing.
After the family of Krajíř of Krajek died out, the chateau owners changed in short intervals and protracted property lawsuits prevented repairs which had become necessary after two fires in the 17th century. When Heinrich of Ostein purchased the estate in 1728 it finally was possible to start a fundamental reconstruction of the chateau supervised by Francesco Camelli. The chateau tower above the southern wing owes it character to these alterations.
The last reconstruction which gave the Dačice Chateau its present appearance is connected with the names of subsequent owners - the Dalbergs who came to Dačice at the beginning of the 19th century. Architect Riedl from Vienna altered the chateau's exterior in Empire style in 1816 and fifteen years later Schleps, another Viennese architect, brought the chateau's interiors into harmony with its Empire frontage.
Unfortunately the Barons of Dalbergs died out in 1940. The chateau was inherited by closest relatives of Dalberg family, the Princes of Salm-Salm. Sadly they owned the chateau only five years. In 1945 the chateau was confiscated by Czechoslovak state. In 1949 chateau was open to public and its interiors presented as a museum of the Empire style. During the reconstruction of interiors in 2010-12 the rooms gained back the authentic appereance from the 19th and the 20th century. Guided tour includes representative rooms and also Dalberg‘s private rooms.
https://zamek-dacice.eu/