Monasterial castle, the only one in this country. It is historically connected to the congregation of the premonstrate nuns of the nearby Rosa Coeli monastery. It was built in its protection most probably around the 13th century. AFter the fall of the monastery in the first half of the 16th century, the main palace building was rebuilt into a palatial renaissance chateau. The gothic defense system of walls, towers and moats remains preserved until the present.
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Dolní Kounice Chateau

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The Oslavany chateau - originally the first women's Cistercian convent in Moravia "Vallis s. Mariae" (Mary valley) was founded in 1225 by Heilwig from Znojmo. In 1228, the Olomouc archbishop was ordained in the presence of Premysl Otakar I and his family.
In 1423, the convent was allegedly burnt down by the Hussites and in 1471 William of Perstejn received rights of disposal to it from King Vladislav Jagelonsky.
The convent began to be rebuilt into a chateau after an extensive fire in 1517.
Other administrators that had to forfeit the chateau were the Kuns of Kunstat and later the Krajirs of Krajka. After 1577 Krystof of Althana acquires the chateau from Emperor Rudolf II and Krystof's successor Adolph of Althana carries out extensive Renaissance reconstruction during 1580 - 1590.
In 1599, the chateau was held by Wolf Ditrich of Althana, from whom it was confiscated by Emperor Ferdinand II for his participation in the Stavovske rebellion. As seized property the manor was handed over to the administration of cardinal Frantisek of Ditrichstein. In 1621 the catholic Michal Adam of Althana, brother of Wolf Ditrich, acquires the chateau into his ownership. After him the owners of the chateau were subsequently his sons Michal I and Michal Jan II. In 1654, via marriage it comes into the ownership of the Mollart family. In 1712, Petr Arnost of the Mollarts sells the chateau to the Old Brno cloisters. In 1783, during the Josephine reforms they lost it and the manor fell into the hands of the Emperor's chamber. In 1789, the chateau was sold into the inheritance ownership of Jan Nepomuk Schraffovi. The last owners of the chateau were the Gomperzs. The brothers of Max and Philip bought it in 1885 and in 1939 the chateau was confiscated by the German army as Jewish property. It was changed into Wermacht barracks. After 1945 the chateau was confiscated by the State as German property and was the headquarters of various organizations, which used it as a warehouse.
In 1993, the devastated chateau became the property of the town and since 1996 this monument has been integrated into the Saving Our Architectural Heritage Program of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and its renovation is being carried out.
The chateau is an extensive Renaissance structure with an arcade courtyard. The original Gothic convent church was preserved and served as the chateau's chapel and now is utilized for concerts. "The History of Mining and Power Engineering" exhibition is located in the chateau. For the time being the chateau is open to the public only several times a year. Traditionally this is on "Open Doors Day" on 1 May, the Karmel fair on 16 July or the first Sunday after the 16th, and the "Oslavany's Historical Celebrations" always on the second weekend in September. The town is looking for an investor to commercially utilize the chateau in accordance with the conditions of monument care.
http://oslavany-mesto.cz/

Oslavany Chateau

The first written record of Moravský Krumlov dates to 1227. The town´s Renaissance chateau dating between 1557 to 1562 stands on the site of a former medieval Gothic castle. Three sides of the chateau courtyard are lined with Renaissance arcades. After the lost battle on the White Hill (1621), the family of Lichtenstein was the owner of the estate.
The well-known Slav Epic by the painter, Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), is situated in the Hall of Knights in the Chateau.
http://jh-inst.cas.cz/

Moravský Krumlov Chateau

A significant monument of Moravian Renaissance. The first written record dates back to 1259. The front is Classical, the second courtyard has a Renaissance arcade with interesting relief symbols (wealth, talent, fame, etc). The interiors of the first floor house a unique hanging painting from the 16th century, stucco ceilings, historical furniture.
The current exposition includes almost the entire first floor of the chateau. The accessible rooms are equipped with furnishings, paintings and decorated with stucco work and frescoes. The exposition is a cross-section of the chateau’s history from renaissance times, through the lavish mannerist stucco ornamentation and baroque furniture to classical paintings in the chateau chapel.
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Rosice Chateau

Antonín Arnošt Freiherr Mitrowicz was born in 1735 in Banská Štiavnica. His military career ended in 1778 when he lost his leg during an artillery attack and was retired early. After that, he moved to Brno and in the following year he bought
an estate with a garden in Old Brno, where a villa with
a magnificent garden delimited by the Svratka river lead were built in the years 1779-1794.
The authorship of the project is not clearly determined. The villa is a building of great artistic quality and it is visually interesting. The floor plan of the building is late baroque, axially composed. The oval central hall is elevated above the surroundings and hides illusive fresco decorations which create the impression of view of exotic land with lush vegetation, but Masonic symbols are also very subtly incorporated in them. The author of the painting is probably the painter Ignaz Mayer junior (1763‑1842) who worked on similar contracts for the Pernštejn estate of the Mitrowicz family.
The suburban villa located in an ornamental garden was very famous during the time of Earl Antonín Arnošt Mitrowicz mainly thanks to social ceremonies which were attended also by Emperor Napoleon I and later Emperor Franz I.
The building was purchased for the city’s purposes in the second half of the 19th century. It lost its reputation and served as a venue for folk theatre arenas, balls and other entertainment. At the beginning of the 20th century, a nursery was established here which used the building until the 1960s. At that time, the fencing was removed from the garden, the garden was made smaller and modified into a leisure park where a Baroque sculpture of the god of war Mars was placed later. The garden buildings (greenhouse – orangery) as well as the buildings forming support facilities for the villa were torn down.
A general reconstruction of the building took place in the years 1979-1987 and subsequently the villa was used for several years by the Brno City Museum.
Since the end of 2007, the villa has been used again for cultural purposes. The building is rented by a private person.
http://letohradekbrno.cz/

Letohrádek Mitrovských Chateau

Špilberk Castle is a castle on the hilltop in Brno, Southern Moravia. Its construction began as early as the first half of the 13th century by the Přemyslid kings and complete by King Ottokar II of Bohemia. From a major royal castle established around the mid-13th century, and the seat of the Moravian margraves in the mid-14th century, it was gradually turned into a huge baroque fortress considered the harshest prison in the Austro-Hungarian empire, and then into barracks. This prison had always been part of the Špilberk fortress.
In 1620, after losing The Battle of White Mountain on November 8, the leading Moravian members of the anti-Habsburg insurrection were imprisoned in Špilberk for several years. The town of Brno bought the castle in 1560 and made it into a municipal fortress. The bastion fortifications of Špilberk helped Brno to defend itself against Swedish raids during the Thirty Years' War, and then successful defence led to further fortification and the strengthening of the military function of the fortress.
At the same time Špilberk was used as a prison. Protestants were the first prisoners forced to serve time here, followed later by participants in the revolutions of 1848–49, although hardened criminals, thieves and petty criminals were also kept here. Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier and one of the most controversial persons of the period was also jailed and died here on October 4, 1749. Later, apart from several significant French revolutionaries captured during the coalition wars with France, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, famous as the former postmaster of Sainte-Menehould who had arrested King Louis XVI, was the most known of them all. A group of fifteen Hungarian Jacobins led by the writer Ferenc Kazinczy was also especially noteworthy.

Špilberk Castle

Castle stands on the site of a Gothic water fortification from the 9th and 10th century. In 16th century the fortress was rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau. Currently is the castle storey building with two courtyards, with the renaissance cantilevers on bays and lofty main outbuilding.
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Miroslav Chateau

Chateau reconstructed from a renaissance stronghold in 1560. During the times of the Dietrichšteins the chateau was renovated in baroque style. The reconstruction, as we know it today, was performed by Mitrovští of Nemyšle. Severe battles over the chateau were led during the Battle at Slavkov.
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Sokolnice 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

According to legend, the castle Veveří ("squirrel" in Czech) was founded by Přemyslid Duke Conrad of Brno in the middle of the 11th Century, then only as a hunting house. Nevertheless, the first credible recorded mention about the castle is from the years 1213 and 1222, when King Přemysl Otakar I used the fortified castle as a prison for rebellious peers. Initially, it was apparently a wooden residence situated near the Romanesque church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary west of the present compound. In the 1220s a stone castle on the extremity of the rocky promontory behind a deep moat cut out of the rock started to grow. The so-called keep is the only structure which has remained well-preserved from this oldest building stage.
King John of Bohemia pledged the castle to nobleman Jan of Vartemberk in 1311, but his son, Margrave of Moravia Charles (later Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV), received the property as a debt settlement in 1335. Charles´ younger brother, Margrave Jan Jindřich (John Henry), then took a fancy for Veveří Castle. He was responsible for the building of its rear part with two towers and an outer ward. In the central area around the keep, he developed the main palace, which included a large hall and the Chapel of St. Procopius (later of St. Wenceslaus). The present appearance of the compound is the result of these building activities, giving the castle its basic silhouette of a medieval fortress.
The castle was a military-civic centre around a manor until the Hussite Wars. During the Hussite wars, Emperor Sigismund positioned mercenary forces of his son-in-law, Albrecht of Austria, around the castle, but he later pledged it to local nobleman Petr Kutěj in 1424. The Hussites besieged the castle in vain during the years 1428–32. During the second half of the 15th century, the castle was rented by Przemyslaus II of Těšín, who decided to reinforce the castle with the construction of surrounding walls. In 1468, King of Hungary and antiking of Bohemia Matthias Corvinus started his occupation of the castle.
At the end of the 15th century, Václav of Ludanice acquired the castle and became the first representative of his noble family which resided here. But his mismanagement of expenses and debts resulted in the family's eventual sale of manor.

Veveří Castle

The chateau is located in a beautiful and tranquil natural setting on the outskirts of Brno near the Marian Valley nature area, the town of Slavkov (Austerlitz), the site of the historic Battle of Three Emperors, the Moravian Karst and the Drahany highlands.
The hotel offers guests 15 reconstructed rooms with modern furnishings, including a room for handicapped guests. Guests have access to a free parking lot, wi-fi internet connection, snack bar and playground.
A large hall (gallery), a small lounge and a room with all necessary technical equipment are available for hosting wedding receptions, family celebrations, corporate events, seminars, exhibitions and formal social events.
The chateau grounds likewise include a restaurant, a vast park, a ceremonial hall, a chapel, a riding school, a library, a hairdresser’s and a massage salon.
http://hotelbelcredi.cz/