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.

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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.
http://south-moravia.info/

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

The reconstructed ruin of a stronghold built on the promontory above the Svitava river in the 15th century. At the beginning of the 19th century it was rebuilt into a hunting castle, which was abandoned in the 50s of the 20th century. Close to the New castle are visible remains of the Old castle from the 13th century.
Castle grounds with surrounding ramparts and lowered original tower – keep, neo-gothic cylindrical tower and palace building, the emblem of the Boskovices and the year 1493 above the entryway. Exposition of the Torture Chamber and Armoury with functioning replicas.
http://south-moravia.info/

Nový Hrad u Adamova Castle

Originally an early gothic castle built in the second half of the 13th century by the Lords of Lomnice. It had been reconstructed several times by 1558 – at the end of the 16th century it was reconstructed into a renaissance chateau and at the end of the 17th century in the baroque style. Then the chateau entrance was decorated with a renaissance portal relocated from Brno. Clearly the most interesting and most valuable feature of the chateau is the preserved high gothic chapel of St. Františka Serafínsky.
http://south-moravia.info/

Lomnice Chateau

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 delightful Renaissance chateau is the highlight of Blansko. A number of distinguished personalities have lived here, such as the doctor and archaeologist Jindřich Wankel and the Austrian writer Ferdinand von Saar. The most famous personality associated with Blansko Chateau is Caroline Meineke, wife of the future King of England William IV and heroine of an ancient tale of unrequited love.
The chateau stands on the site of an original Gothic feudal court mentioned in sources in the 14th century. The building has four wings with a rectangular inner courtyard with pillared arcades. The chateau’s Renaissance appearance dates back to the beginning of the 17th century. It was built in 1604–1605 by Jan Žalkovský of Žalkovice. It has undergone numerous alterations since that time. In 1695, the Gellhorns built the chateau tower and clock, while the interior layout was altered during the time of the Salms in the 19th century. General repairs to the chateau were performed in 1969 with the aim of restoring the purity of the building’s Renaissance style.
The last restoration of the chateau courtyard was completed in 2012 and gave rise to new expositions in the form of an exhibition of cast-iron sculptures, the Chemical Laboratory of Baron Reichenbach, the Discoverers of the Moravian Karst, and the Castles of the Blansko Region.
http://blansko.eu/

Blansko Chateau

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/

Líšeň Chateau

Originally a castle reconstructed into a chateau. Built in the 13th century by the Lords of Boskovice. It burnt down during the times of the Aueršperks in 1726. It was restored in 1859-61 by Count Freiss in the renaissance style. At present it serves as a retirement home.

Černá Hora Chateau

The first reference to Křtiny dates back to the year 1237; but its history goes back as far as to the arrival of the Moravian missionaries Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century proof of which is the name of the township. 
The monastery of Křtiny was at the height of its fame in the 2nd half of the 18th century, soon after the church was consecrated. Before long, however, it was closed down by Emperor Joseph II. The church still served its religious purposes but the property of the monastery was sold. And new owners appeared – the Dietrichstein family, after them the Bubna family of Litice and then the Tauber family. In 1894 Jan II of Liechtenstein got hold of the Křtiny Chateau; he intended to repair it and donate it to the township to be used as a school or hospital. The Křtiny inhabitants however were worried that the costs would be too high and they did not accept this gift. Afterwards only the doctor lived here. 
In 1923 the University of Agriculture in Brno took over the Lichtenstein Adamov estate and at the same time also the Křtiny Chateau was handed over but it remained to be the dwelling of the doctor. During World War 2 it was used by the German army. Not until the 1950’s was the building used for practical training at the school farm. A number of special-purpose construction works and repairs were done but as a whole the chateau was dilapidating. In the early 1980’s the University of Agriculture in Brno handed the chateau over to the administration of the School Forest Enterprise Křtiny, because from 1967 to 1996 it had been the seat of the enterprise headquarters (until 1996). 
Since 1994 the chateau has been extensively reconstructed. First of all, the roof timbers were redeveloped and the roofing was restored to prevent the rain coming in; in 1997 the south wing was reconstructed. At the end of 2001 the well-equipped state-of-the-art audio visual educational room was built. The social hall was redeveloped. After that the main building underwent complete overhaul and redevelopment. In November 2008 the remaining part of the chateau- the north wing - was inspected and passed. Two floors were converted to accommodation facilities, a new kitchen with restaurant, on the ground floor space for a potential information centre and multi-purpose room. In 2010 the reconstruction was completed. 
http://slpkrtiny.cz/