Bosyně Chateau

Bosyne is a small village near Vysoká in the Mělník region. There stands a castle in it, which was created by converting an older fortress. A noble residence was here as far back as the fourteenth century, when the village was divided among several owners.

The fortress is first mentioned in the year 1408, when Jan Homut lived there. His family then held it for several generations. In 1432, Radslav Homut is recorded, and in 1465 another Jan Homut, who married Anna z Počapel. A later owner, Jindřích Homut, insured a dowry on the fortress for his wife Mariana z Kokořova. He died around 1540 and seven sons inherited the small estate from him.

The oldest of them, Jiří Homut, expanded the property with Chodeč and with a farm in Bosyne, which until then had belonged to the town of Mělník. In 1575, however, he sold part of the village together with the fortress to Jiří Kaplíř ze Sulevic. He added five more villages to the estate, and in 1587 he sold it all to Albrecht Pětipeský. The Pětipeští z Chyš connected Bosyne to the Byšice estate. They no longer needed the fortress, so it fell into disrepair.

After Albrecht's death in 1596, Václav Felix Pětipeský inherited the estate. He took part in the Estates Revolt in the years 1618 to 1620 and as punishment lost all his property. The confiscated Byšice estate was purchased in 1623 by Polyxena z Lobkovic. The Lobkovicové most likely restored the fortress.

In 1668, Václav Eusebius Popel z Lobkovic sold the Bosyne estate to Václav Silvestr Smrček ze Mnochu. A year later it was purchased by Daniel Pachta z Rájova. At that time, Bosyne belonged to the Liblic estate. The Pachtové z Rájova had the fortress converted into a Baroque castle and held it until 1845, when Count Friedrich Deym acquired it. In the second half of the twentieth century, the complex was used by a state farm. Since 1966, the castle complex has been protected as a cultural monument.

The main building of the castle is single-storey and has a rectangular floor plan. On the ground floor there is a large hall with a coffered ceiling. The complex also includes stables, a long single-storey barn, and land surrounded by remnants of a perimeter wall. All the buildings stand around an irregular courtyard.