Petrkov Castle, Château in Petrkov, Lípa, Czech Republic

Petrkov Castle is a Baroque structure with a rectangular design situated in the Czech countryside. The building shows the characteristic features of 18th-century architecture and received official status as a cultural monument.

Severin of Langendorf had the château built in 1750 on the site of a farmyard that may have contained a fortress, using masonry from the farm's buildings. It later passed to the Trčka of Lípa, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and the Dlouhoveští of Dlouhá Ves families, then to estate farmers. In 1866 it was bought by Josef Regnek, grandfather of poet Bohuslav Reynek.

Bohuslav Reynek and his French wife Suzanne Renaud lived here from 1926, at first only in summer and wintering in Grenoble; from 1936 they stayed year-round. The castle now holds a permanent exhibition on Reynek and a Czech-French cultural centre.

A small road links Petrkov with Lípa and Svatý Kříž, and a branch of the Bohuslav Reynek educational trail leads to the castle, partly following the green-marked hiking route from Svatý Kříž to Havlíčkův Brod along the edge of the village. The château and its adjoining park are open to the public.

The castle was a space where Reynek and his French wife created together, leaving traces of their collaborative work throughout the rooms. This cross-cultural partnership resulted in works that still bear witness to their time there.