Ptenín Castle, Castle in Czechia

Ptenín Castle is a two-storey plastered masonry building whose three wings enclose a trapezoidal courtyard open to the west. The entrance with a semicircular arch lies in the northern single-storey four-axis wing, and the facades carry Renaissance sgraffito. A central eight-axis block with a mansard roof and a towerlet joins the northern wing, and a stone wall runs around the grounds.

A fortress on the hill of Ptenín was first mentioned in writing in 1535. Between 1548 and 1688 it was rebuilt as a Renaissance castle. Count Ferdinand Morzin had it rebuilt and enlarged in Baroque style between 1728 and 1738, after which it served as housing for officials and as an occasional hunting lodge.

The castle's name simply follows the village of Ptenín. On the north wing's facade, visitors can spot Renaissance sgraffito decoration in the so-called psaníčka pattern, a banded motif scratched into the plaster. Since 2015 the municipality has run an exhibition here titled "Opening the Treasures of the Countryside".

The castle stands on a rise in Ptenín, in the Plzeň-jih district. The three wings enclose a trapezoidal courtyard open to the west, where the entrance with its semicircular vault lies in the northern wing. A park adjoins the west side, partly enclosed by a stone wall, and the buildings are surrounded by a stone wall. Part of the building still serves as housing, so visitors should keep to the areas open to the public.

The castle passed into the ownership of the local national committee after the end of the Second World War in 1945. Today it belongs to the municipality and is partly used for housing, while the exhibition "Opening the Treasures of the Countryside" opened in 2015.