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

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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.
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Moravské Budějovice Chateau

This chateau was probably built in the 1280s on an elevated area over Kojetice. It acquired its present-day Renaissance-Baroque appearance through successive renovations in the 16th, 17th and especially the 18th century. It had several owners; its last private owner was Chorynští of Ledské.
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Sádek Chateau

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

For the first time ever, the entire building was reconstructed thus creating space for four thematically independent exhibitions, which focus in different ways on topics linked with the town of Třebíč and the wider region. These include the mineralogical exhibition entitled The World of Inanimate Nature, the monastery exhibition The World of Portals and Gates, the castle tour The Waldstein Family at Třebíč and finally, the museum exhibition entitled People. Places. Destinies.
In addition to tours that offer a deeper understanding of the region and the museum’s collections, you can also visit short-term exhibitions in the former castle stables as well as concerts and lectures in the Stone Hall.
Educational programmes are prepared for schools on a regular basis involving modern technologies both in the exhibitions as well as in a multi-function hall and study.
The reconstruction also made the premises fully accessible to the disabled visitors. 
Visitors can sit back and relax at the Museum Cafe and rest areas in the paradise garden and in the outer courtyard of the castle.
http://zamek-trebic.cz/

Třebíč Chateau

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.

Bítov Castle

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

A fortress with a water moat in the 13th century, a Renaissance residence from the 16th century and an opulent Baroque chateau from the 18th century – this is the history of the Budišov Chateau. 
In 1974, the chateau passed under the Moravian Museum a depository of the Department of Natural Sciences, open to public was placed here. In the museum, visitors can see unique collection of natural history. 
A park with four ponds is also here. It was developed in the 1720s, partially in French style. Originally, there was a large collection of sculptures, but only statue sphinxes and Atlas have survived.
http://waymarking.com/

Budišov Chateau

The original castle was rebuilt in 1790 in late Baroque chateau with classicism building elements. Its two large halls are decorated with frescoes by renowned Moravian late Baroque painter Josef Winterhalter. A large English park is part of the chateau.
The chateau is a rectangular two-storey building with ground floor lateral wings. In the axis of the main facade is the entry columned portico, the garden is in rear part of chateau. There is also sala terrena topped with a triangular gable. Historically equipment interiors have been preserved very little. The chateau complex is surrounded a large English park with many rare tree species.
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Dukovany Chateau

The history of the Château in Plaveč reaches as long as the 13th century. In that time there was a Gothic fortress which was re-built into a Renaissance castle at the end of the 16th century by the family of Hodicky. Then in the mid-18th century a scion of this family, from the line of de Souches family, re-built the Renaissance castle into a Baroque palace. The present classicistic form was impressed to it by the baron Albert Widmann in 1825, whose ancestors acquired the château in 1743. There is a splendid park stretching around in the surroundings of the château.
The most valued well-preserved monument in the precinct is a Romanesque rotunda from the mid-13th century.
http://jevisovice.info/

Plaveč 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.