Chateau Kluky, Cultural monument in Kluky, Czech Republic.
Chateau Kluky is a stone building at the center of its namesake village, displaying traditional Bohemian construction methods. The complex includes residential structures and outbuildings that reflect rural life in this region.
A Gothic fortress stood here from the 14th or 15th century and was first documented in 1538, when Jan the Younger of Libodřice sold it to Jan Chotouchovský of Nebovid. After 1700 the Obytecký of Obytec family rebuilt the decaying fortress as a Baroque chateau, filling in the moats and laying out a garden. In 1856 Emilie Boleslavská of Ritterstein had it remodelled in Neo-Renaissance style; her descendants held it until 1945.
The village church of St. John the Baptist was one of two churches whose patronage rights were sold with the fortress in 1538. The chateau later served as the seat of the local national committee and a state farm canteen in the second half of the 20th century.
The chateau stands in the village of Kluky, roughly midway between Kutná Hora and Čáslav in the Central Bohemian Region. The building itself is not open as a museum; in the second half of the 20th century it housed the local national committee, a state-farm canteen and flats. The park and the remains of the moat and boundary wall can be seen from outside.
The Gothic masonry of the medieval fortress survives inside the chateau: it is built into part of the outer wall up to the height of the first floor. Traces of the filled-in moat are still visible around the building on all sides except the west.
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