Czech Republic · 15th century
Brtnice Chateau is a Renaissance chateau in the town of Brtnice in the Jihlava district in the Vysočina Region. On the site of the Brtnice chateau there originally stood a high Gothic castle, begun at the end of the Hussite Wars by Zdeněk of Valdštejn, remnants of which are still visible in the third courtyard today. During the Renaissance the chateau received the definitive three-part layout it retains to this day. The last Valdštejn owner of the chateau was Zdeněk IV, son of Jindřich II Brtnický of Valdštejn.
After the Battle of White Mountain the chateau was confiscated and its new lord became the Italian Collalto family. After the confiscation of the Collalto estate in 1945 the chateau was nationalized, but since no use was found for it, it began to fall into disrepair. This decay continues, as a dispute over ownership has dragged on since 1989 and no side has achieved a decisive court victory. The chateau is protected as a cultural monument.
Machine-translated from “Brtnice (zámek)” on the Czech Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brtnice Castle ranks #7,309 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #224 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. Founded c. 1500, it is older than 43% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 554 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Brno, 69 km away. It is one of the 189 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Bohemia. See how Czech Republic compares in the castle statistics.
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