Dolní Benešov Castle, Cultural monument and château in Dolní Benešov, Czech Republic.

Dolní Benešov Castle consists of two nearly parallel buildings facing each other, the remnant of a three-wing layout, joined by a corridor built in 1983–1985. The three-storey north building has a hipped roof and barrel-vaulted cellars; the L-shaped south building has a balcony on massive pillars and a walled-up portal bearing a three-pointed crown with ram horns and the year 1498. Walls are of quarry stone and brick, roofs covered with slate.

The Benešovici family built a fortress here, first documented in 1411; the lords of Drahotuš rebuilt it in late Gothic style around 1500. David Mošovský of Moravčín converted the wooden fortress into a Renaissance stone château at the end of the 16th century, and the Mošovský family added a two-storey Baroque wing in 1660–1670. The present form dates from the 18th century under the Kalkreut family; the château was listed as a cultural monument in 1964.

The castle now houses the Dolní Benešov municipal office, and its ceremonial hall and castle chapel are used for events. The park was laid out as an English landscape garden around 1900 under the Rothschilds, who owned the estate from the 1870s. A carved slab above the south building's entrance bears a three-pointed crown with ram's horns and the year 1498.

The castle stands on a hill in the middle of a 1.7 ha English landscape park; the north and east sides of the park are open, while the south side is bounded by a stone wall and the west by the access road with a gate. The grounds are on a slight slope, and the former farm buildings are separated from the park by a metal fence.

A stone slab above the south building's entrance bears a three-pointed crown with ram's horns and the year 1498, a detail most visitors walk past. The two facing wings are the remnant of a three-wing layout, joined only by a corridor built in 1983–1985.