Lesní Hluboké Castle, Baroque castle in Lesní Hluboké, Czech Republic.
Lesní Hluboké Castle is a single-storey late-Baroque building of roughly square plan with a mansard roof and rounded corners, built beside a farmyard. The ground floor has banded rustication and barrel vaults with five-sided lunettes, while the upper floor is framed by pilasters and the large rooms rest on elliptical arches. A one-storey residential wing with a passage adjoins it on the east.
The castle was built in 1770 by the Rajhrad monastery and initially functioned as a hunting lodge and administrative headquarters for nearby forest management. After decades of state control, it was returned to the Benedictine community in 2015.
The Chapel of Saint Anne stands next to the castle, not inside it; it was built a few years after 1770 by master mason Matyáš Jednuška, who is also proposed as the castle's possible architect. Castle and chapel are together protected as a cultural monument, and the Václav association now holds cultural events in the building.
The castle stands on the southern edge of Lesní Hluboké in the Brno-venkov district, about 20 km west of Brno. It is open to the public by prior arrangement, and since 2017 it has been under reconstruction; the Václav association, based in the building, organises cultural events there.
The chapel of St. Anne next to the castle was built a few years after the residence by master mason Matyáš Jednuška, who is also cited as a possible architect of the castle itself. Castle and chapel are protected together as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
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