Castle Kaceřov, Renaissance château in Kaceřov, Czech Republic

Kaceřov Castle is a Renaissance château in Kaceřov, Plzeň-North District, built from 1540 for royal secretary Florián Gryspek. It is a two-storey building with a central courtyard, originally protected by two water moats fed by a pipeline from marshes near Dobříč. Italian masons and stonecutters, probably led by Giovanni Statia, built it as a residence in the style of High Italian Renaissance.

In 1539 the royal secretary Florián Gryspek obtained Kaceřov as a pledge and, from 1540, replaced the ruined medieval fortress with a new residence. Italian masons built it over nearly two decades, partly funded by King Ferdinand. After the 1622 confiscation it passed to Plasy Monastery, and a 1912 fire destroyed its roofs.

Florián Gryspek, a high royal official, made Kaceřov his family seat and had the village raised to a market town with its own town hall. The estate kept a brewery whose four kinds of beer were carted to Prague, and a garden of apple trees, vegetables, herbs and spices.

The château is privately owned and open to the public only occasionally, so visits depend on the owner's arrangements. It stands in Kaceřov in the Plzeň-North District, where the former medieval fortress served later as farm buildings. The building is under long-term reconstruction.

The moats were fed by water piped from marshes near Jezírko by Dobříč, and Gryspek had his estate mapped in 1558, marking boundaries with stone posts called Gryspek's blocks. A brickworks by the river supplied bricks, roof tiles and floor tiles for Kaceřov and his other buildings.