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Velké Opatovice Castle, Baroque Revival château in Velké Opatovice, Czech Republic.

Velké Opatovice Castle is a Baroque Revival structure featuring symmetrical facades and decorative stone details across its exterior. The building now serves multiple purposes including museums, a cinema, and municipal offices within its complex.

A modest Baroque castle with five rooms was built in 1699 by Jiří Markvart z Vězník on the site of an older fortress. In 1757 Count Karel Otto of Salm-Neuburg replaced it with a late Baroque building, demolishing the so-called upper fortress. Mansard roofs, a garden loggia and a gatehouse were added between 1908 and 1917; the southern wing burned in 1973 and was replaced by Zdeněk Fránek's hall, finished in 2007.

The castle houses the Moravian Cartographic Centre, opened after the new hall was completed in 2007. Its permanent exhibition draws on the centre's own maps and on collections of the National Technical Museum in Prague.

The castle stands in the centre of Velké Opatovice, next to the Church of St George. The municipal office, a bank and the Moravian Cartographic Centre occupy the building, so parts of the interior are working offices rather than exhibition rooms. The winter garden beside the wing destroyed by the 1973 fire is structurally unsound and closed off.

The building originally served as a residential castle but gradually transformed into an important administrative and cultural hub for the wider region. This shift is evident in the diverse modern functions now housed under a single roof.

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