Koloděje nad Lužnicí Castle, Renaissance château in Koloděje nad Lužnicí, Czech Republic.
Koloděje nad Lužnicí Castle is a two-story structure with a rectangular footprint, a central tower, and two wings set within the village. The elevated ground floor and compact layout create its distinctive silhouette.
A farmstead with an inn stood here until 1535, when Adam Čabelický of Soutice had a small Renaissance residence built on the site, surrounded by a moat fed by the Lužnice. In 1704 the estate passed by auction to Count Václav Oktavián Kinský; his daughter Marie Alžběta brought it as dowry to František Karel Vratislav of Mitrovice, who had the residence rebuilt as a Baroque château in 1739–1741.
The chapel of St. Anne, added in 1741 by architect Jan Hybner, holds a 1744 fresco, Glorification of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Trinity, by Jiří Vilém Neunhertz. Its altarpiece of St. Anne with the Virgin and Child comes from the circle of Petr Brandl's followers, and the organ dates from 1818.
The castle sits approximately 3 kilometers north of Týn nad Vltavou in the village center. Plan your arrival with local conditions in mind, as the village location means limited facilities nearby.
In 1970 a military aircraft crashed onto the castle roof. The Vratislav z Mitrovic male line died out in 1943, and the estate was later nationalised, serving as a museum depository and farm cooperative property before restoration and reopening to visitors in 2016.
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