A stone - or rather an inaccessible granite rock was an ideal place for founding of a manor of the same name (in Czech "Kámen" means "The Stone"). Its older, Gothic section, from which only a palace remained, was founded probably in the 13th century. Newer buildings of the chateau date back to Baroque of the 17th century, in the 19th century it was influenced by the wave of romanticism. Following its restoration in 1970s, the castle and its imposing grounds house the Museum of Single-track Vehicles.
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Initially constructed as a castle in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 16th century as a château by the Robmháp family of Suchá.
Notable owners include the imperial field marshal and martial councillor Sigismund Myslík of Hyršov and the Španovský family of Lisov. The Discalced Carmelites, who came to Pacov in 1708, started converting the palace into a monastery and the Abbey Church of St. Wenceslas in 1718. The famous architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer designed plans for further development in 1739. The building was ultimately reconstituted as a manor house after the monastery’s dissolution by Joseph II in 1787, its square layout being broken in 1884 when the east wing was torn down. In the 1860s the château housed a grammar school and teacher’s quarters where the poet Antonín Sova was born on February 26, 1864, as a son of the local schoolmaster Jan Sova. Sova’s birth is now commemorated by a JV Dušek monument on top of the ramparts. The Weiss von Tessbach family owned the château until May 1945 when it was appropriated by state authorities. From 1947 to 1992 it was occupied by the Czechoslovakian People’s Army. The château’s ongoing renovation started in 1997 when it once again became municipal property.
Today it houses the town council, Antonín Sova History Museum, public library, and Tourist Information Centre.
http://zamekpacov.cz/

Pacov Chateau

Built by the former owner of the estate of Martin Jindřich Paradis de la Saga. It acquired its present day appearance during the times of Prince Schönburg.
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Černovice Chateau

Medieval fortress mentioned the year 1363 in connection with the death of noblemen Mikoláš z Radenína, rebuilt in the early 17th century into a Renaissance castle and extended with a new wing. Later rebuiled into Empire chateau, last time changed the look in 1845, when rebuiled in Neo- Renaissance style.
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Radenín Chateau

Kamenice nad Lipou lies in the northwestern region of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, some twenty kilometres north of Jindřichův Hradec, in Pelhřimov District.
The chateau acquired its present Neo-classical appearance in the early 19th century.
In 1580–1583, the original 13th-century castle was converted into a Renaissance mansion graced by a courtyard with arcades and a garden. The Baroque entrance tower was built in 1744. The chateau is surrounded by an English landscape garden featuring a linden tree estimated to be 700–800 years old. Kamenice nad Lipou derives its name from the tree. In 1998, the chateau came under the management of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (UPM). Following extensive restoration work carried out between 1998 and 2004, permanent collections were installed on the ground floor of the Renaissance north wing, where the Museum also holds short-term exhibitions. The south wing of the chateau houses exhibition installations administered by the Municipal Museum, and the Ceremonial Hall. The cellars with their Gothic Hall are also open to visitors.

Kamenice nad Lipou Chateau

The chateau was built in the middle of the 16th century on the location of an old Gothic structure. The remains of the original structure are still evident in the cross vaults located on the ground level of the chateau. After a major fire in 1682, the chateau was rebuilt in a Baroque style. Its current design as a double-wing structure with a French mansard roof and a square clock tower dates back to 1767 when the property underwent a major reconstruction. Located on the first floor of the chateau is the original Renaissance banquet hall with its decoratively painted ceiling. The chateau was used as the town hall until 1849 and it later served as the seat of the local court. The first museum exhibits were installed in the chateau in 1908. The collections include paintings, folk art, porcelain, glass, furniture and clocks.
http://region-vysocina.cz/

Pelhřimov Chateau

The Renaissance complex of the Červená Řečice Chateau originated with the reconstruction of the former Gothic castle. The castle was once surrounded by a water moat, part of which still survives today, that drew its water supply from the neighbouring cascade of ponds. From the late 12th century until the 1950s, it was the natural centre of the expansive estate of the Prague bishops and archbishops. Beginning in 1953, the entire complex began to deteriorate, and was used for storage, keeping farm animals, and its Baroque halls served as granaries. The situation began to improve in 1996. The first reconstructions began in 2011, and continue to this day.
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Červená Řečice Chateau

This mighty castle was founded in the mid-13th century and only ruins of walls and two towers have remained of it. The ruins boast an unusual layout (it is a rare example of a double castle). The castle was owned by the Rožmberks from 1355 till 1597 when Petr Vok sold it; in 1614 the castle was abandoned. The core of the castle is situated on a steep rock; visitors who climb up the stairs in one of the towers are rewarded with a beautiful view from a height of 18 metres; weather permitting one can see as far as the Šumava Mountains or the Brdy Hills.
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Choustník Castle

You can visit the ruins of a castle from the 13th century with a well-preserved bergfried tower as an observation tower that has survived to the present day. The castle remains are now a part of a historical-craft educational centre whose purpose is to inform the general public about craftsmanship of our ancestors. The centre includes multiple workshops, a forge, a pottery oven or, for example, a small herb garden.
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Šelmberk Castle

When the eldest owner Ješek from Brandlín died, Brandýs castle was still originally a manor with a fort. The next important owners were Olbramové Brandlínští from Štěkř who rebuilt the fort to the Renaissance style in early 16th century. Another ownrs were for examples Hozlauerové z Hozlau and Černínové z Chudenic. Later the fort was rebuilt again to the castle in Baroque style. In 18th century Brandlín castle belonged to Zlatá Koruna monastery, family of barons Nádherných and Baroque adjustments were on the order of the day. Last adjustments are known from years 1934 and 1958 of the 20th century.
In the lower part of the Castle is situated The Castle Pub, where you can sit-down in a pleasant enviroment with a great view on beautiful arches and escutcheons of all previous owners.
On the first floor is arising new exposition of the knight´s hall. Here you can find historical artefacts and their replicas, including old castle clocks.
Outdoor you can see well-preserved Renaissance frescoes and we recommend remarkable soulution of the east facade too.
Brandlín Castle lies in South Bohemia Region in the middle of Brandlín village which is located about 8 km north-east of Soběslav and 8 km north-west of Planá nad Lužnicí. Same far is Červená Lhota Castle and is also possible to visit well-known castle ruins of Choustník which are only 5 km away and Kozí Hrádek Castle is in the distance of 10 km from Brandlín Castle.
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Tučapy (Brandlín Chateau)

The existence of an original fortress on the site of today's château is assumed from sometime around the middle of the 14th century. It was built on a rocky granite outcrop, which, after the damming of a stream and the filling up of a fishpond, became an island. The first written source is an entry into the land records from 1465, mentioning the division of the property of deceased Ctibor of Zásmuk between his two sons Petr and Václav. The fortress then might have been sold into the ownership of Diviš Boubínský of Újezd, who sold it to the knightly family of Káb of Rybňan sometime around 1530. The family had the original Gothic castle rebuilt and the basic Renaissance remodelling carried out between 1542-1555, and the château acquired the name Nová Lhota.In 1597, the château was sold to Vilém Růt of Dírná who had the building rendered with red plaster, from which it got its name Červená Lhota. The last of the Ruts, Bohuslav, had to leave the Bohemian lands as an Utraquist after the Battle of White Mountain.
In 1621, Červená Lhota was inhabited by Antonio Bruccio, who died in 1639 without an heir. With his death, Lhota lost its function as a residence and it was used by his successors as occasional cottage. In 1641, it was acquired by aristocrat Vilém Slavat of Chlum and Košumberk and later it passed into the hands of the Windischgrätz family. Bedřich Arnošt Windischgrätz and his son Leopold dragged the dominion into great debts due to their out-dated style of economics, so the custodian of his under-aged successor Josef recommended the sale of the dominion. In 1755 the château then was obtained by the free lords of Gudenus. Franz de Paul, free lord of Gudenus, shortly afterwards initiated several constructions, which were brought to an abrupt halt in 1774 by a great fire, which destroyed essentially all agricultural buildings.
In 1776, Červená Lhota welcomed a new owner, Baron Ignác Stillfried, a progressive aristocrat of Prussian Silesia whose son sold the dominion to Jakub Veith in 1820. His daughter Terezie sold the château again in 1835, this time into the princely hands of Heinrich Eduard Schönburg-Hartenstein who gave the castle to his son Josef Alexandr Schönburg-Hartenstein. He died in 1937 and was buried into the newly built tomb, and thus spared the destructive events of the new war, which drew the curtains closed for the entire aristocratic history of Červená Lhota château.
After the confiscation of the château by the Czechoslovak state in 1946, a children's clinic was established here. However, a year later, the château was granted to a National Culture Commission, and in 1949 it was opened to the public.