Slezské Rudoltice Castle, Baroque château in Slezské Rudoltice, Czech Republic

Slezské Rudoltice Castle is a Baroque château of four single-storey wings enclosing one rectangular courtyard, built by rebuilding a Renaissance fortress. The front has a round-arched portal with a balcony, topped by a low square tower with ornamental battlements, and the east wing projects a chapel with a trefoil apse. It stands in a park with a pond.

The original medieval fortress was transformed into a Renaissance castle between 1548 and 1565, then underwent Baroque redesign under Albert of Hodice's ownership. These successive changes reflected shifting architectural tastes and the increasing wealth of those who controlled the property.

Albert Joseph of Hodice kept a permanent castle orchestra from 1709 and ran a theatre in the former library hall, which also held his art and antiquities collections. Guests included the Prussian king Frederick II, a nephew of his wife Duchess Sophie of Saxe-Weissenfels. The estate was called the Silesian Versailles.

The castle stands in a park with a pond; a two-winged metal gate on two square pillars opens the grounds, with smaller side gates for pedestrians. The former steward's flat now serves as tourist accommodation. In 2017 the castle received 5,162 visitors.

The castle's former library doubled as a theatre, entered through two ornate stucco portals; its ceiling carried a fresco, and ornamental and figural stuccowork covered the walls. The sculptor Jan Schubert (1743–1792) made the decoration, and traces survive in the Rain Room's portrait medallions and glass mosaic fragments.