Protivín Castle, Renaissance château in Protivín, Czech Republic

Protivín Castle is a four-winged, two-storey High Baroque château at the southern end of Masaryk Square in Protivín, with adjoining farm buildings and a chapel of St John of Nepomuk in the forecourt. Its park lies on flat ground by the Blanice River, which forms the park's eastern boundary.

A castle stood here by 1282, when King Přemysl Otakar II pledged it to the Prüschenk brothers; Charles IV redeemed it in 1334. The Mitrovic family rebuilt the fortress as a Renaissance château by 1615. After a fire in 1714, Adam Franz of Schwarzenberg had it rebuilt in high Baroque form in 1714–1732 by Pavel Ignác Bayer and Anton Erhard Martinelli.

The name Protivín is first documented in 1282, when the castle stood on the site of today's château. The chapel of St. John of Nepomuk in the forecourt is protected together with the castle buildings as a cultural monument. In the castle garden's pheasantry, pheasants were bred until the mid-19th century.

The castle stands at the southern end of Masaryk Square in Protivín, with the park on flat ground along the Blanice River, which forms its eastern boundary. The whole complex was closed in 1979 because of its dilapidated state, and in January 2024 the castle and its grounds were secured by the National Centre against Organised Crime. Check access before travelling.

In January 2024 the National Centre against Organised Crime seized the castle and its grounds over suspicion they were proceeds of crime. The site had already been closed since 1979 because of its emergency condition, and in 2015 it was reported to be in private hands.