Hrubý Rohozec, Gothic Revival château in Hrubý Rohozec, Czech Republic

Hrubý Rohozec is a castle converted into a château on the northwestern edge of Turnov, above the right bank of the Jizera. A large cream-white building forms a U-shaped plan around a courtyard, with rows of dark rectangular windows, steep dark grey hipped roofs with dormers and chimneys, and a round tower with a domed roof at the left corner. It stands on a sheer grey rock base, with trees against its lower walls.

The original fortress was built around 1300 to control trade routes crossing the region, then underwent major reconstruction from 1513 to 1516. This rebuilding transformed it from a military stronghold into a residential palace reflecting the architectural tastes of its time.

The castle displays exhibitions showing how noble families lived, with period furniture, paintings, and personal objects scattered throughout its rooms. These collections reveal the customs and tastes of the aristocratic residents who inhabited the place across different eras.

The château offers two separate guided tour circuits, so visitors can choose one or both. It stands three kilometres north of Turnov on a rock above the Jizera, and the entrance portal of the tower leads into the courtyard. The interiors keep the furnishings of Count Mikuláš Vladimír Des Fours Walderode's era.

Rainer Maria Rilke stayed at the castle several times and used his impressions there in the novella Teufelsspuk and partly in the novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. The castle passed to the Desfours family in 1623 through Wallenstein, who gave it as a fief to his colonel Nikolaus von Desfours.