Zámecký areál Lobkovice, Renaissance château in Lobkovice, Czech Republic.
Zámecký areál Lobkovice is a one-storey, four-wing château on a trapezoidal plan with a hipped roof, set inside a farmyard on a terrace above the Elbe. Its Renaissance part has a three-storey prismatic tower with a mansard roof; the tower's ground floor keeps a Gothic barrel vault. A moat survives in front of the west wing.
The property first appeared in written records in 1403 when Prague burgher Prokop Krukner acquired it. Over time the medieval manor was gradually transformed into a Renaissance residence.
František Palacký did not inherit Lobkovice through his marriage: his wife Terezie was the daughter of Jan Měchura, who bought the estate in 1829 and rebuilt it, and she inherited it in 1840. Palacký, author of the History of the Czech Nation in Bohemia and Moravia, stayed here often and favoured the place. Their son Jan Palacký sold it in 1897 to Prince Mořic of Lobkovice.
The château stands inside a working farmyard on a terrace above the Elbe in Lobkovice, part of Neratovice. It is not a daily museum: the building serves as a venue for events and as a pension, and opens to the public during markets, concerts and open-door days held through the year.
In 1991 the estate was returned in restitution to Alexandre de Ridder-Lobkowicz, born 1948 and great-grandson of the 10th Prince of Lobkowicz, Ferdinand Zdeněk. His son Maximilian later took over the property, which since 2022 has been opened for cultural and social use.
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