Dymokury Castle, Baroque château in Dymokury, Czech Republic

Dymokury Castle is a three-winged, single-storey Baroque building with a pale facade, a hipped roof of orange-red tiles, and rows of small, evenly spaced windows on two levels. It stands in the centre of Dymokury behind a low wall and fence, with smaller structures and bare trees to its left.

A fortress stood here by the 14th century and was first documented in 1572 under Jindřich Seletický ze Smojna. In 1614 Albrecht Jan Smiřický bought the estate and had the fortress rebuilt as a Renaissance château. After 1654 Vilém Lamboy built a Baroque château on the site; around 1688 the Colloredo family added a storey and two wings, and František Colloredo's partial rebuilding in 1786 gave it the present three-wing, single-storey form.

The Czernin family, owners since 1833, gave the castle chapel its Neo-Gothic form in the 1870s under Děpold Czernin, while the park was enlarged at the same time. Senator Tomáš Czernin, the fifth generation of the family to hold the estate, owns it today along with its forest, field and pond farming.

The castle stands in the centre of Dymokury, in the Nymburk district; the Czernin family, its owner since restitution, runs forest, field and pond farming from the estate. The building is not a regularly open museum, so arrange any interior visit with the owner in advance, while the exterior can be viewed from the village street.

After communism ended, the Czernin family recovered ownership of the castle through property restitution, a rare outcome in the Czech Republic. This recovery makes the castle a notable example of how some families regained their heritage in the post-1989 period.