Zámek Lovosice, Renaissance château in Lovosice, Czech Republic.

Zámek Lovosice is a two-storey château with a rectangular plan and projecting side risalits, its façades divided by cornices. Entry is through an early Baroque portal decorated with a frieze and vases. Many rooms and corridors carry barrel and groin vaults; ground-floor rooms have stucco work, and fragments of paintings of Czech rulers from the first half of the 17th century survive on the first floor. A garden with two corner pavilions adjoins the building.

A fortress probably built during the Hussite wars stood here; it is first documented in 1479, when King Vladislaus II settled a dispute between the Altzella monastery and Václav of Kladno. Jiří Šlejnic had a Renaissance château built on the fortress site between 1545 and 1574. After a fire in 1809 the Renaissance gables and lunettes disappeared during rebuilding; from 1949 to 1960 the château housed the district national committee and later a school.

The château passed from the Šlejnic family to the Valdštejns, then in 1655 to Countess Sylvie Kateřina Černínová, and through her marriage to the margraves of Baden; in 1783 it came to the Schwarzenbergs. After the Schwarzenberg archive was moved to Třebov, the building housed the district national committee from 1949 to 1960 and later a school.

The château stands in the centre of Lovosice, in the Ústí nad Labem Region. Its two-storey rectangular block with projecting side risalits and cornice-lined façades can be seen from the street; the early Baroque portal with its moulding and vases marks the entrance. A garden with two corner pavilions adjoins the building.

The Renaissance gables and lunettes were lost, not restored, after the 1809 fire; the rebuilding that followed removed them. What survives inside is a set of wall paintings of Bohemian rulers from the first half of the 17th century, in the first-floor rooms.