Trnová Castle, Château in Trnová, Prague-West District, Czech Republic

Trnová Castle in the Prague-West district consists of a Baroque one-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer windows, built in 1688, and a Neoclassical two-storey wing added in the 1750s. The Baroque core preserves vaulted ground-floor rooms. In the 1860s a clock tower, side projections, an open loggia and corner turrets were added in a Romantic style.

The oldest part, a one-storey Baroque building with a mansard roof, was built in 1688 as lodging for Dominicans from St. Giles in Prague. In 1759 Kristián Josef Paulin von Gfässer bought Trnová and during his thirty-year ownership the residence was enlarged into a two-storey Neoclassical château. Vincenc Daněk, founder of the Karlín engineering works that became ČKD, rebuilt it in Romantic style in the 1860s, adding a clock tower and corner projections. It was returned to the Schloger family after 1989, declared a cultural monument in 1995, and restored by Ivan Pilip after 2006.

František Škroup, composer of the melody of the Czech anthem, often stayed in Trnová, first with the local priest and later at his brother Václav's estate in the 1850s. He walked to the Vltava valley lookout called Kazatelna, now Škroupova vyhlídka, where local tradition says the tune of Kde domov můj came to him. The Škroup family tomb is in the Church of the Holy Spirit.

The castle functions as a venue for corporate events, meetings, and celebrations with specialized packages available year-round. Visitors should contact ahead as availability depends on the event schedule.

Vincenc Daněk, founder of the Karlín machine works that became ČKD, bought Trnová in 1860 and rebuilt it in a romantic style: he added a clock tower, side projections, a first-floor hall with terrace and staircase, an open loggia and corner turrets. He sold it four years later to buy the larger Tloskov estate.