Kvasiny Castle, Baroque château in Kvasiny, Czech Republic

Kvasiny Castle is a Baroque château with Empire-style modifications, consisting of a two-storey main building with a wooden turret and conical roof, and three wings. It stands in the southeastern part of a ten-hectare English park, bordered to the north by the Bělá River. The grounds include a winter garden with a greenhouse, a gardener's house, the Chapel of St. Anthony of Padua, and several ponds, the first created in 1905 for a hydroelectric plant.

A Renaissance fortress stood here by the early 17th century; it was confiscated in 1623 and sold to Jindřich z Donína in 1624, then decayed. The Barefoot Carmelites, who acquired it in 1653, rebuilt it as a three-winged single-storey Baroque château, finished by 1706, the year carved above the gate. Antonín Slivka had it remodelled in Neoclassical style after 1824.

The castle's name comes from the village of Kvasiny, where a fortress stood from the early 17th century before the Carmelites rebuilt it as a Baroque château. Since December 2010 the former Hunting Hall, added in 1874, has served as a concert hall, and the château now houses a gallery open to visitors.

The castle stands in the southeastern part of a ten-hectare English park, bordered to the north by the Bělá river. The park holds several ponds; the first was created in 1905 for a small hydroelectric plant, and a drainage reservoir lies on its millrace. The gallery opened in December 2010, and the concert hall occupies the former Hunting Hall.

František Karel Janeček, son of the founder of the Jawa brand, bought most of the estate in 1928 and had the sawmill opposite the castle, by the railway station, rebuilt to make car bodies for Jawa. He emigrated to Great Britain in 1938; during the war his wife Jindřiška stayed at the castle with five children and helped Russian paratroopers and Czech factory workers.