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Kněžice Castle, Neoclassical château in Kněžice, Czech Republic

Kněžice Castle is a two-storey block building with a rectangular plan, standing above the Kněžice fishpond by the road to Opatov. Its entrance façade has an off-axis entrance tower with a pyramidal roof and two projecting bays at the ends; the main roof is hipped. The tower's half-storey once held a clock, now missing.

A fortress built by the Hrutovici family in the mid-14th century preceded the castle and probably vanished around 1500. The Brtničtí z Valdštejna had a rectangular chateau with an entrance tower built here by the 1580s. Confiscated in 1623, it passed to Rambaldo XII of Collalto for 110,000 thalers; the side towers date from an 18th-century Baroque rebuild, followed by Neoclassical work around 1800.

The castle has housed the municipal office since 2000, when the obec bought the building and ended its decay; a restaurant and a museum with a permanent exhibit, "Living and Non-living Nature around Kněžice", also operate here. The castle stands above the Kněžický rybník, by the road to Opatov.

The castle stands above the Kněžice fishpond by the road to Opatov. The municipal office, restaurant and the museum with its permanent exhibit on the living and non-living nature around Kněžice occupy the building. The former park north of the main wing has not survived, and most of the farmyard buildings were demolished.

The castle stands above the Kněžický fishpond beside the road to Opatov. A 1937 entry in Večeřův Domopis records an old lime tree in front of the building, and nothing survives of the former park north of the main wing.

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