Hroby Castle, Cultural monument château in Hroby, Czech Republic.
Hroby Castle is a Baroque château in the village of Hroby near Radenín, formed by rebuilding an earlier Renaissance fortress. Its main building is a single-storey rectangle, extended toward the courtyard by three short wings; the main façade has a balcony and a tympanon with the coat of arms of the Krakovský z Kolovrat family. Inside, the layout of the rooms and fragments of figurative frescoes survive.
A fortress stood here by 1376, when Smil z Hrobů is recorded there; after Jiří Hrobský moved to Radenín the village and fortress fell derelict. Adam Smrčka ze Mnichu built a Renaissance château beside the ruined fortress, and František Jiří Koch had it rebuilt in Baroque form. In 1831 the Kolovrat family added three short wings toward the courtyard.
The village church next to the castle is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and the castle with its farmyard and park forms one urbanistic ensemble with it. The castle facade carries a tympanon with the coat of arms of the Krakovský of Kolovrat family, who owned the estate from 1753 and had the building extended by three short wings toward the courtyard in 1831.
The castle stands in the village of Hroby by Radenín, in the Tábor district; road II/409 separates the building from its park, where the greenhouse, the Neoclassical pavilion and a protected summer oak with a 510 cm trunk stand. The farmyard with its vaulted administrative buildings belongs to the protected complex, as does the neighbouring Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
In the castle park, separated from the building by the II/409 road, stands a summer oak protected as a memorial tree since 2005, with a trunk circumference of 510 cm. The park also holds a greenhouse and a Neoclassical gazebo.
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