Brněnské Ivanovice Castle, Baroque château in Brněnské Ivanovice, Czech Republic
Brněnské Ivanovice Castle is a small, free-standing Baroque building with a single one-storey wing and two tracts, its saddle roof fitted with dormer windows. Smooth façades are pierced by rectangular windows with surrounds and sill and lintel cornices. Above the entrance a stone cartouche frames the Velehrad monastery coat of arms with the year 1683 and the initials F.P.S.A. of abbot František Petr Sylavecký.
Brněnské Ivanovice belonged to the Cistercian monastery of Velehrad from the 13th century. The monastery built a small fortress there in the 14th century, and the farmyard was restored between 1650 and 1652 after the Thirty Years' War. In 1682–1686, under Abbot František Petr Sylavecký, the fortress was rebuilt into a small Baroque castle, probably designed by Giovanni Pietro Tencalla. After the monastery was dissolved in 1784, the estate passed to private owners.
The castle's name comes from the village of Brněnské Ivanovice, also called Nenovice, and it served as the administrative seat and residence of the Cistercian abbots of Velehrad. In the chapel of the Virgin Mary, a stucco relief and a fresco of a Cistercian venerating the Virgin Mary survive, along with a replica of the Brno Madonna. The castle and farm buildings are protected as a cultural monument.
The castle stands alone at the southern edge of Brněnské Ivanovice; the entrance to the grounds is from Saidova Street, where a statue of St John of Nepomuk by Jan Adam Nesmann, dated 1766, stands in a niche of the boundary wall. The building is not a regularly open museum, so visits depend on the current owners and tenants.
Above the entrance is a stone cartouche with the Velehrad monastery coat of arms, the year 1683 and the initials F.P.S.A., referring to abbot František Petr Sylavecký, who commissioned the castle. In a niche of the boundary wall by the Saidova Street gate stands a statue of St John of Nepomuk by Jan Adam Nesmann, dated 1766 and protected as a separate cultural monument.
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