Hraběšín, Cultural monument and château in Hraběšín, Czech Republic

Hraběšín château is a one-storey, nearly square building with a low hipped roof, its present form shaped by an 18th-century Baroque remodelling and later Schwarzenberg alterations. The entrance portal carries a statue of Saint John of Nepomuk, a chapel was added on the east side, and the Schwarzenberg coat of arms sits on the gate facing the village green. Ground-floor rooms have vaulted ceilings, upper-floor rooms flat ones.

Hraběšín was made a separate estate in 1622, when Adam Studenecký z Pašiněvsi acquired the village and built a late Renaissance château. His daughter Salomena and her husband Zdeněk Felix Lukavecký sold it to Sedlec Monastery in 1658, and the monastery used it as a summer residence for its convent and had it rebuilt in Baroque style. After the monastery was dissolved in 1783 the estate passed through the religious fund, and Prince Karel Filip ze Schwarzenberg bought it in 1819; the family kept it as a hunting seat and later a gamekeeper's lodge until 1945.

The château's name comes from the village of Hraběšín, which existed by the 14th century but became a separate estate only in 1622 under Adam Studenecký of Pašiněves. The Schwarzenbergs, who owned it from 1819, placed their coat of arms on the gate facing the village green, and the chapel of Saint Florian is the one interior that kept its original character.

The château is not open to visitors; it stands within a farmyard in Hraběšín, southwest of Čáslav in the Kutná Hora district. The grounds are entered through a main gate on the north side and a side gate on the south, with the farm wing adjoining the south side of the building. The gate from the village square carries the Schwarzenberg coat of arms.

The chapel of Saint Florian, added to the château's east side under Bedřich of Schwarzenberg, kept its interior while the other rooms were heavily remodelled in the 20th century. The Schwarzenberg coat of arms was placed on the gate facing the village square.