Fryštát chateau, Empire style chateau in Fryštát, Czech Republic.

Fryštát chateau is a mansion in Empire style that has been carefully restored and retains original details on its exterior and interior spaces. Next to the main building stands the adjacent Lottyhaus structure, which visitors can explore alongside the main residence.

Fryštát chateau grew from a castle founded in 1288 by Silesian duke Měšek I of the Piast dynasty as the first building of the new town of Fryštát. After a fire in 1511, Duke Kazimír II had it rebuilt in early Renaissance style; in 1572 it passed to Václav Cikán of Slupsko and became the seat of the free Fryštát estate. From 1792 the Larisch-Mönnich family rebuilt it in Empire style on the Piast foundations.

The chateau displays furnishings and objects from the Empire period that reveal how the local nobility lived and furnished their spaces. Walking through the rooms shows the tastes and preferences that shaped how people of rank decorated their homes.

The main building opened to visitors in 1997, the Lottyhaus wing in 2003; the permanent National Gallery branch in Lottyhaus is open year-round, while two other tour circuits run from March to October. The chateau stands on Fryštát's market square, with the 36-hectare park of Božena Němcová behind it.

The chateau is the only residential seat of the Silesian duchy in the Czech Republic. Its interiors display furniture from the vanished Larisch castles of Raj and Solca, and the Lottyhaus wing holds a branch of the National Gallery in Prague.