Czech Republic
Budyně nad Ohří was originally a moated castle, later rebuilt as a chateau. It is located in the town of the same name in the Litoměřice district in the Ústí Region and is protected as a cultural monument.
The castle was most likely founded by King Přemysl Otakar II, but the seat soon passed into the pledged possession of the nobility. This became final in 1336, when the Zajíc family of Hazmburk acquired it from King John of Luxembourg and made it one of their principal residences. In the second half of the sixteenth century the family rebuilt the castle as a Renaissance chateau, which remained theirs until 1614, when the indebted Jan Zbyněk Zajíc of Hazmburk sold it to Adam of Šternberk. From then on Budyně's importance gradually declined. It lost its residential function entirely after the Thirty Years' War, since the more significant Dietrichstein seat became Libochovice Chateau.
Machine-translated from “Budyně nad Ohří (hrad)” on the Czech Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle Budyně nad Ohří ranks #7,039 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #217 of the 243 mapped in Czech Republic. 12 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Ústí nad Labem, 29 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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