Nezamyslice Castle, Baroque château in Nezamyslice, Czech Republic
Nezamyslice Castle is a three-winged, two-storey building enclosing a rectangular courtyard, with its entrance wing facing west onto the square. A Baroque stone portal bearing the alliance coat of arms of the Olomouc Augustinian canons and provost Dominik Antonín Baumann opens into the building. A corridor from the south end of the east wing connects it to the neighbouring Church of St Wenceslas.
The present castle was built in the early 1760s under Dominik Antonín Baumann, provost of the Olomouc monastery (1754–1768), on a site the Olomouc Augustinian canons may have used for a residence since 1697–1701. The canons held it until their monastery was dissolved in 1784. In 1813 Count Augustin Ségur-Cabanac bought the estate, and in 1877 the Congregation of the Sisters of St Hedwig arrived and ran a school and orphanage there.
The Latin inscription "DOMINICI PRESVLIS CVRA" ("by the care of the superior") beneath the cartouche on the entrance portal refers to provost Dominik Antonín Baumann, who had the castle built in the early 1760s. The cartouche carries the alliance coat of arms of the Olomouc Augustinian canons and their provost. From 1877 the Sisters of St Hedwig ran a school and orphanage here.
The castle is owned by the Olomouc Region and houses a home for people with disabilities, so interiors are not open to the public; the three-winged building and its baroque portal with the Augustinian coat of arms can be seen from the square. A corridor links the east wing to the church of St. Wenceslas, and the baroque granary of 1679 stands opposite the entrance wing.
A Baroque granary dating from 1679 still stands as part of the castle complex. This outbuilding reveals the property's historical importance to the region's agriculture.
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