Drahenice château, Cultural monument and château in Drahenice, Czech Republic.

Drahenice château is an originally Renaissance building with two Baroque rebuildings, made up of two one-storey wings in an L shape under a mansard roof. A prismatic tower with a cupola stands where the wings meet. The west wing is the entrance, its main facade with clear Baroque articulation facing the street; the longer south wing faces the garden and pond and holds the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary with oval windows.

Drahenice château grew from a fortress first documented in writing in 1638. At the end of the 17th century the estate belonged to the Valdštejn family, then in the 18th century to the Nostic family, who had the old Renaissance fortress rebuilt in Baroque style. The Hartmanové z Klarštejna bought the estate in 1796 and carried out further Baroque alterations; the Lobkowicz family acquired it in 1870 and regained it in restitution after 1989, after which the main building was repaired.

The château is not open to the public, so its cultural life is seen from outside: the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, with oval windows, occupies part of the longer south wing. The Lobkowicz family, owners since 1870, recovered the estate after 1989 and repaired the main building.

The château is not open to the public, so visits are limited to views of the exterior from the village street. The main road through Drahenice separates the two-winged building from its park with pond and garden, and the former English park west of the road is bordered in places by a crumbling wall.

The château is not open to the public, so its interiors cannot be visited; what visitors can see from the village street is the west entrance wing with its Baroque articulation. The garden front of the south wing, with the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception and its oval windows, faces the pond.