Zámek Potštejn, Baroque château in Potštejn, Czech Republic

Potštejn Castle is a one-storey Baroque building with a high mansard roof, built around a square courtyard with ground-floor pillar arcades. The entrance wing has a three-axis central projection topped by a triangular tympanon bearing the coats of arms of Jan Ludvík Harbuval Chamaré and his wife Anna Barbara ze Sannigů with the year 1749. A semicircular projection on the south facade holds the Chapel of the Holy Trinity with Rococo furnishings.

Count Jan Ludvík Harbuval Chamaré acquired the Potštejn estate in 1746 and had a one-storey Baroque château with a high mansard roof built on the site of an older manor and farm buildings. Architect Josef Jäger designed it; the east wing was finished in 1749, as the tympanum date shows, and main works ended in 1757. The four-wing layout with ground-floor courtyard arcades was already archaic for its time.

Since 2011 the castle has revived the Friday Salons first held here in the early 20th century by Countess Marie von Wenckheim, bringing historians, athletes, artists, doctors and travellers to meet the public. Before Christmas the Bethlehem story is staged for children, and a costumed night tour follows a frivolous young witch seeking admission to the sabbath.

The château opened to visitors in 2006, when three rooms were made accessible; by 2010 another eleven rooms and the chapel had been restored. Tours cover the interiors, the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, the English park opened in 2010 and the adjoining rose garden, with a gallery and café on the ground floor.

The castle chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, sits in a semicircular projection of the south facade and holds Rococo furnishings. In the cellar, a haunted-house exhibit called Bubákov tells the story of the robber knight Mikuláš of Potštejn.