Přibyslav Castle, Neoclassical château in Přibyslav, Czech Republic.

Přibyslav Castle is a Renaissance château with Baroque and Neoclassical alterations, built around 1560 by Zachariáš of Hradec on the site of an old farmyard belonging to the earlier castle. Its rectangular original building now forms the rear south wing of a four-wing complex arranged around two courtyards, with a Tuscan colonnade arcade and a Gothic cross vault on two stone columns in the southwest corner.

Zachariáš of Hradec had a hunting lodge and summer residence built around 1560 on the site of an old farmyard belonging to the earlier castle. After his death, his heirs sold it to the Zejdlic family of Šenfeld, who lost it after the Battle of White Mountain for sheltering Frederick V. Cardinal Franz von Dietrichstein bought it for 150,000 guilders, and it stayed with the Dietrichsteins until 1923.

The castle houses a Fireman Museum where you can see firefighting equipment and tools from different periods of Czech history. Walking through the rooms, you notice how fire-fighting technology changed over time.

The castle stands in the centre of Přibyslav, with its two courtyards and the entrance to the firefighting museum in the oldest rear wing. The exhibition moved here from Prague's Firefighting House during the reconstruction begun in 1975, and the permanent fire-protection display opened in 1983. Look for the Dietrichstein coat of arms on the north façade, restored by Petr Máša in 2007.

The oldest part of the castle keeps a Gothic cross vault on two stone columns in its southwest corner, likely reused from the cellars of the former manor farm. The door jamb of one room bears the coat of arms of the lords of Hradec with the year 1565. The castle has no chimney, as the reconstruction counted only on electric heating.