Morzin palace, Dolní Lukavice, Baroque palace in Dolní Lukavice, Czech Republic

Morzin Palace is a three-winged baroque building with central projections topped by pavilion-like upper storeys. Its central section was finished in 1708 and the side wings after 1724; a drive-through hall occupies the ground floor of the middle part. The palace chapel of St John of Nepomuk, consecrated in 1731, holds a large black-and-gold altar by Lazar Widmann with over-life-size statues of St Wenceslas and St Adalbert.

The château stands on the site of a fortress held from the 15th century by the Lukavský family. In 1666 Count Pavel Morzin acquired the estate, and from 1708 Count Ferdinand Matyáš Morzin had it rebuilt to a design by Jakub Auguston the Younger. The Morzins sold it to Karl Bedřich Hatzfeld; the Schönborns owned it until the 1930s, diplomat Ferdinand Veverka bought it in 1938, and it was confiscated in 1945 and returned to his descendants in 2002.

Count Morzin's chapel of St John of Nepomuk, consecrated in 1731 by Bishop Jan Adam Vratislav of Mitrovice, drew not only the nobility but also ordinary people to services. The chapel holds a large black-and-gold altar by Lazar Widmann with over-life-size statues of St Wenceslas and St Adalbert, and eight marble columns arranged in a square.

The château is privately owned and only occasionally open to the public; the chapel was exceptionally opened in 2009 and drew great interest. Visitors normally see the exterior and the park, which was laid out in the first half of the 18th century and later reshaped in 1808–1809.

In the chapel, eight square-set marble columns support a ceiling fresco of St John of Nepomuk by Julius Lux; the main altar is the work of Lazarus Widmann, with over-life-size statues of St Wenceslas and St Adalbert.