Dobromilice Castle, Renaissance château in Dobromilice, Czech Republic.
Dobromilice Castle is a two-storey, two-wing Baroque château with a five-wing layout around an irregular inner courtyard, standing on the southwestern edge of Dobromilice. A prismatic corner turret with a round clock face and a four-sided mansard roof rises from the entrance wing, whose façade carries a single-axis risalit with a tympanum holding the Bukůvka coat of arms. A Rococo hall extension faces the park, and a Baroque granary of the first half of the 18th century stands east of the building.
A medieval fortress at Dobromilice is first recorded in 1368; by 1563, when Matyáš Žalkovský bought the estate, it lay abandoned, and the Žalkovský family built a new late-Renaissance fortress. In the second half of the 17th century Jan Arnošt of Scherfenberk had it rebuilt as a Baroque five-winged castle with a sala terrena and park. Václav Count Kořenský of Terešov later added a Rococo hall wing and funded the Rococo rebuilding of the parish church of All Saints, probably by the same architect.
The castle's interiors are not open to visitors, but the name Dobromilice is linked to the Bukůvka family, whose coat of arms crowns the entrance tympanum. Michael Zikmund Bukůvka kept several rooms after selling the estate in 1870, and his family lived there for years.
The castle stands on the southwestern edge of Dobromilice, about 5 km northwest of Němčice nad Hanou. It has been privately owned since 2002 and is undergoing gradual reconstruction; it is not normally open to the public, so visits must be arranged with the owner. The protected Baroque granary from the first half of the 18th century stands east of the main building.
The castle is not open to the public: since 2002 it has been privately owned and is being gradually repaired. It has been a listed cultural monument since 3 May 1958, together with the adjoining Baroque granary from the first half of the 18th century.
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