Ježovy Castle, Baroque château in Ježovy, Czech Republic.
Ježovy Castle is a one-storey building with a hipped roof and a rectangular plan of 7 × 4 window axes, standing at the edge of a farmyard northeast of the village square. A polygonal tower with a chapel on its first floor stands before the east facade, whose lizene frames and frieze with rectangular cartouches separate the two floors. The entrance hall is paved with hexagonal tiles and a spiral staircase leads up from it.
A Gothic fortress at Ježovy was first recorded in 1518; after that date Mikuláš Nebílovský z Drahobuze had a new Renaissance fortress built, surrounded by a moat. In 1663 Jan Heřman Černín rebuilt the old fortress as a Baroque castle. In 1738 the indebted estate was sold to Count Ferdinand František Morzin, who had the building altered in late Baroque style; it then served as housing for stewards and officials, and after 1945 the local national committee used it.
The Nebílovský family expanded the estate so that by the late 16th century it included Trnčí, Slatina, Lučice and Černíkov with its fortress. In 1592 the brothers Smil and Vojtěch divided the property, and Ježovy with its fortress and farmyard fell to Smil. The building later served as housing for estate stewards and officials, and after 1945 the local national committee used it.
The castle stands at the edge of a farmyard northeast of the village square in Ježovy, in the Klatovy District of the Plzeň Region. The grounds are a protected monument, so the building is best viewed from outside; the garden wall with its pillar gate, the stables with four dormers and the fountain moved here in 1977 from Oselce Castle are part of the complex.
The fountain standing by the south side of the castle was moved here in 1977 from Oselce Castle; the garden it sits in replaced the former park. The chapel occupies the first floor of the polygonal tower in front of the east facade.
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