Lechovice Castle, Baroque château in Lechovice, Czech Republic

Lechovice Castle is a three-wing baroque building in the upper part of the village, next to the pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. Its courtyard opens eastward, partly closed by modern additions. The west wing has two tower-like projections and a balcony above the main entrance; the south wing features a cast-iron terrace flanked by projections with Kübeck coats of arms. The castle is surrounded by a 3.5-hectare park with two fountains, a cast-iron pergola, and a protected Lechovice oak.

Lechovice was first recorded in 1287 as property of the church of St Michael in Znojmo; a fortress mentioned from the mid-14th century later vanished. In 1660 the Premonstratensian monastery of Louka bought the estate for 11,000 gulden. The summer residence was built around 1720–1722, probably alongside the pilgrimage church, and Josef Lang gave it its three-wing layout after 1824.

The castle's cultural layer comes from the Kübeck family, who owned the estate from 1827 to 1945. Maxmilián Kübeck, a long-serving Moravian provincial deputy, finished the neo-baroque and Secession alterations in 1904 by setting a small chapel of the Virgin Mary into the park wall. His daughter Blanka, a writer, continued building the family library, later dispersed among the National Museum in Prague and the Moravian Library in Brno.

The grounds are walled and entered through two gates, from the south and the north, with a small gate leading directly to the pilgrimage church. The castle itself is private and open only during the wine shop's opening hours, when the whole area can be visited freely. The park covers about 3.5 hectares.

The castle's valuable Kübeck library survived the 1945 looting but was later split among institutions, including the National Museum in Prague and the Moravian Library in Brno. In the park stands the protected Lechovice oak, and a small gate leads directly from the grounds to the pilgrimage church.