Orlické Mountains and Podorlicko - Castles and chateaux

Castles and chateaux

• Borohrádek - chateau 
  Empire style chateau, which was built in 1816 - 1820 by reconstructing a lord's Renaissance mansion. After 1945 it was confiscated. In 1957, building restoration was conducted, the ground floor was elevated by an additional storey. Now the chateau serves as a retirement home.
  Address: 517 24, Borohrádek
  
• Častolovice - chateau 
  The history of Častolovice Chateau extends back to the 13th century when a water fortress stood in the valley of the confluence of the Bělá and Kněžna Rivers. This fortress was built on massive wooden pillars in the middle of the water. The structure was reconstructed as a Renaissance chateau at the turn of the 17th century. In addition to a farmbuildings, brewery, distillery, and wash houses the grounds also included orchards, fish ponds, and a mill with a 1 km long millrace. In the year 1694 the...
  Address: Masarykova 1, 517 50, Častolovice
  
• Choceň - Orlické Museum (Choceň - Orlické muzeum) 
  The Renaissance chateau with ground floor arcade in the courtyard was built in the second half of the 16th century. In 1829 the chateau burned and restorations were conducted in the Classicist style. In 1849-1850 the east wing of the chateau was reconstructed into the pseudo-Gothic Chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, which forms the entrance area to the chateau.
  Address: Pardubická 1, 565 01, Choceň
  
• Doudleby nad Orlicí - chateau 
  Address: Doudleby nad Orlicí 1, 51742, Doudleby nad Orlicí
  
• Koldín - renaissance chateau 
  Renaissance chateau apparently built by Jan Hylebrant of Ryzmburk on the site of the old fortress from 1589 with high scutcheons and a facade ornate with graphite. Arcades with crossed vaulted ceilings on the first floor. In 1694-1924 it was in the property of the Sternberk family. Now it is in private ownership and functional use. Remains were found of the settlement of another so-called Silesian-platenic ash culture.
  Address: 565 01, Koldín
  
• Kolowrat Chateau in Rychnov nad Kněžnou (Kolowratský zámek v Rychnově nad Kněžnou) 
  The Early Baroque multi-story chateau was built by Fr. Karel Kolowrat in 1676-1690 (allegedly according to the plan by a northern Italian architect) In 1722 the chateau was lengthened, widened, and raised, likely according to the design by Jan Santini Aichel. The main chateau façade is elaborated to an unusual width.
  Address: Zámek 1, 516 01, Rychnov nad Kněžnou
  
• Kostelec nad Orlicí - chateau 
  The son of Prince Ferdinand, Count Josef Kinský, had this Empire style chateau built in 1829-1833 as the family residence. A reception room and library were built on the elevated ground floor; the first floor contained residential spaces.The Kostelec new chateau is one of the best Empire structures of its kind in the country. The chateau is surrounded by an English park, which has now been declared a nature preserve.
  Address: Kostelec nad Orlicí
  
• Lanškroun - Chateau and town museum 
  The oldest part of the Lanškroun Chateau is the wing adjacent to the Church of St. Wenceslas. This was the eastern wing of the monastery, built by the Augustinians after 1393. The structure was named a chateau as early as 1507, when it was acquired by the Pernštein family. The building underwent numerous reconstructions over the subsequent centuries, and these substantially changed the chateau’s appearance. A ceremony hall is now located in the newly altered Gothic spaces of the chateau’s west wing...
  Address: nám. A. Jiráska, Zámek 1, 56301, Lanškroun
  
• Litice nad Orlicí - castle 
  Litice Castle was established near the end of the 13th century during the colonization of the sparse settlement at the time of the ancient border forest of northeastern Bohemia, which was royal property. The castle was built on a high rock promontory over the meandering Divoká Orlice River. By the end of the 16th century the castle was already entirely abandoned; care was taken, however, to ensure that it didn’t become completely dilapidated, and at least the rear palace was secured. Attempts were...
  Address: 564 01, Litice nad Orlicí, Žamberk
  
• New chateau (Nový zámek u Lanškrouna) - Chateau remains 
  The chateau was built in the years 1699-1712 by Jan Adam Ondřej of Lichtenstein due to the fact that the smaller chateau in Lanškroun was no longer large enough for his needs. The new chateau had three floors and was built on an “H” shaped plan. There were 14 halls on each floor decorated with Baroque stucco and wall paintings. The area around the park was adapted into a large park. The chateau burned in 1714 and in 1756 the owner ordered its destruction. Only the façade of the right side projection...
  Address: Rudoltice
  
• Opočno - chateau 
  Address: Trčkovo nám. 1, 51773, Opočno
  
• Potštejn - castle ruins 
  While only ruins remain today, Potštejn at one time was one of the largest and most important castles in the country. The castle changed owners many times after its founding in the 13th century. Important among these from a historical as well as a literary perspective was the Count Harbuval de Chamaré, who searched unsuccessfully for treasure at the castle for twenty years. However, the writer Alois Jirásek used this fact as inspiration for a novel. The castle was already in poor condition sometime...
  Address: 51743, Potštejn
  
• Potštejn - Chateau 
  Perhaps as early as the first half of the 15th century the owners of the Potštejn domain built an aristocratic estate with a fortress to replace the run-down castle on the hill above the small town; the remains of this fortress can be identified today in the cellar of the chateau. The growth in the importance of the estate and fortress required substantial expansion of the fortress and reconstruction in the Renaissance style.
  Address: Jarníkova 1, 517 43, Potštejn
  
• Skalka - chateau 
  Originally the fortified Renaissance residence of the Mladot family of Solopysky from the end of the 16th century, built on the site of a Gothic fortress and reconstructed in 1736-1739 as a Baroque chateau. Skalka is known as the scene of Jirásek's novel Darkness.
  Address: 51803, Podbřezí
  
• Tatenice - chateau 
  Late renaissance hunting chateau. Previously a fortress, which was situated on the site of today's eastern wing of the chateau, where extensive barrel vaulted cellars are preserved , was reconstructed in 1606 by Ladislav Velen of Žerotín into a chateau. After Ladislav was forced to depart, the chateau came into the ownership of the Liechtensteins, who sold it to a local landowner. In 1798 the chateau burned down. After 1945 the chateau served as a storehouse and fell into disrepeair. In the mid...
  Address: Tatenice 86, 561 31, Tatenice
  
• Villa (Letohrad) - Chateau 
  On the site of today’s east chateau wing the owner of the domain, Zdeněk Žampach of Potštein, built a simple wooden fortress in 1554; in 1681 this was rebuilt by a subsequent owner into an Early Baroque chateau. The fortress was razed and only the stone wall foundations and cellars remained, upon which a two-storied chateau with tower were then built. In the 1990’s extensive reconstruction was undertaken. In addition to permanent exhibits there is also a hotel, private high school, the town library...
  Address: Václavské nám. 1, 56151, Letohrad
  
• Zámrsk - chateau 
  An original fortress, likely from the 15th century, that was burned by the army of Matthias Corvinus in 1469. Reconstructed and expanded into a chateau in the first half of the 17th century. Currently houses the State Regional Archive.
  Address: Zámek 1, 565 43, Zámrsk
  
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