Budeničky Castle, Baroque château in Budeničky, Czech Republic
Budenice Castle is a three-winged baroque former noble residence in Budeničky, built on the site of an older fortress. Its eastern wing was completed around 1694, while the current layout dates from 1795–1796, when the Kinský family added two more wings. The castle chapel of St. Wenceslas has an altarpiece by Josef Berger.
The castle was built during the baroque period as a residence for a local noble family in Bohemia. It evolved over the following centuries as the region experienced different political circumstances.
The castle is closed to the public and decaying, so there is no interior visit. Its cultural value lies in the chapel of St Wenceslas, whose altarpiece was painted by Josef Berger, who also painted an image of St Isidore. In the park stands an early baroque chapel of St Matthias, built by the original builder Matěj Ondřej Hartman of Klarštejn.
The castle and its park are closed to the public and in a state of decay, so visits are limited to viewing the exterior from outside the grounds. The entrance area holds the 1849 gatehouse designed by Friedrich August Stach. The site lies at the end of a tree-lined avenue running from Zlonice.
The castle was not held by one family throughout: begun for Matěj Ondřej Hartman of Klarštejn, it passed to the Martinic family in 1693 and later to the Kinský family, who finished it in 1795–1796. In 2022 it was bought by the company Muchovo Muzeum s.r.o.
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