Příchovice Castle, Baroque château in Příchovice u Přeštic, Czech Republic.
Příchovice Castle is a Baroque-style building located near Přeštic in Bohemia, featuring a symmetrical front with rectangular windows and ornate stone details across its exterior. The structure has a rectangular floor plan typical of 18th-century Central European residential design, with decorative elements framing the windows and corners.
In 1716 Jindřich Antonín Henigar ze Seeberka bought Příchovice and made it his seat. He had the 14th-century fortress rebuilt as a Baroque maison de plaisance in 1718–1719 to plans by the Plzeň builder Jakub Auguston the Younger. Hugo Count of Schönborn bought the castle in 1784; from 1912 it was held by tenants, and after 1949 it belonged to the Czech army until 1993.
The castle hosts summer concerts, exhibitions and the Pivoňkové slavnosti (Peony Festival) in May. Its park holds one of the largest collections of woody peonies in the Czech Republic, and the garden façade's five-sided polygonal rizalit faces this park.
The castle stands in the southern part of Příchovice village, in the Plzeň-jih district. A plastered wall with a brick coping and an iron gate between two rusticated pillars with stone caps separates it from the village square side. The grounds are partly enclosed, so visitors should expect to view the Baroque exterior and park from outside rather than enter freely.
The castle park holds one of the largest collections of tree peonies in the Czech Republic. Each May the grounds host the Pivoňkové slavnosti (Peony Festival), alongside summer concerts and exhibitions held in the building.
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