Velké Březno Castle, Renaissance Revival villa in Velké Březno, Czech Republic.

Velké Březno Castle is a small aristocratic seat built in Empire style on a ridge above the Elbe valley, later given a square tower and attic storey in a Neo-Renaissance remodelling. Its interiors survive largely intact and house a museum on the Chotek family; a landscape park with an arboretum of noble trees belongs to it.

Count Karl Chotek, supreme burgrave of the Kingdom of Bohemia, had the castle built in Empire style between 1842 and 1845 to plans by the then little-known Viennese architect Ludwig Förster. From 1885 to 1910 his son had it remodelled in Neo-Renaissance style by Dresden architect Ernst Fleischer, adding an attic storey and a square tower. The Choteks held it until confiscation in 1945.

The interior retains most of its original furnishings, and the exhibition traces the Chotek family, whose best-known member was Sophie Chotek, wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. A landscape park with an arboretum of noble trees belongs to the castle.

The castle stands on the slope of Zámecký vrch on the edge of Velké Březno, in the Ústí nad Labem district, and is owned by the state, administered by the National Heritage Institute. The grounds combine a five-hectare English park with a small French park; the nearby old castle with its mansard roof is privately owned and not open to visitors.

Sophie Chotek, who was shot with her husband Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, stayed at the castle at the end of the 19th century. The castle passed to the Chotek family until 1945, when it was confiscated under the Beneš decrees.