Svojšice Castle, Fortified house in Svojšice, Czech Republic.

Svojšice Castle is a stone fortified structure located in Petrovice u Sušice municipality. It combines residential features with defensive elements in a single compact building.

The fortress was probably built between 1401 and 1417 under Jan Cíl, founder of the knightly Cíl family of Svojšice, who held it until the 18th century. In 1615 the village was divided between the Cíl family and Jan Jindřich of Běšiny. In the Baroque period the building was converted into a granary, and in 1792 a small one-storey chateau was completed next to it.

The name Svojšice comes from the village, and the fortress gave its name to the knightly Cíl family of Svojšice, founded by Jan Cíl, who likely built it between 1401 and 1417. Above the Gothic entrance portal, fragments of a biblical text and a now illegible painted coat of arms of the Cíls survive. In the second half of the 20th century the building served as a warehouse for the local collective farm.

The fortified house and the small late-18th-century chateau stand together in the village of Svojšice, near Petrovice u Sušice in the Klatovy district. The site is a cultural monument and has served as a farm storehouse, so the interior is not set up as a museum; view the Gothic portal and sgraffito fragments from outside.

Above the Gothic entrance portal, fragments of a biblical text and the painted, now illegible coat of arms of the Cíl family of Svojšice survive. The portal sits in a recess cut for a drawbridge, and the second floor once had a wooden gallery, whose beam holes still line the upper edge of the facade.