Hajany Chateau

The chateau Hajany is located in a quiet village southwest of Brno in the district of Brno-venkov, surrounded by an extensive economic court. The building was probably in the Baroque style around 1714 when it was built by Johann Baptist Kaschnitz von Weinberg, the military treasury manager, who bought ten thousand and a hundred of Rhine gold from the monastery of the cigarillos in Old Brno in June 1714. Since its inception, the chateau has become the administrative seat of a small estate and has grown into a complex building complex over time.

Soon, the Hajani estate changed owners. In 1746 it was acquired by Jindřich Xaver Hájek z Waldstätten, the later highest country scribe in Brno, who probably had built the southern residential wing and started building the northern economic tract. The first written mention of the chateau dates back to 1772 from the inventory in the estate of Hájek - its modest content suggests that the building was mainly used for the accommodation of public officials, while the owners themselves lived in Brno.

In June 1790 the estate was purchased by Matyáš Smetana, tax controller of the Moravian administration, to whom was then awarded an hereditary knighthood. After his death, he was inherited by sons, from whom Leopold rytíř Smetana retained his share and devoted himself to extensive building development. The plans of 1792 and 1798 document the conversion of economic wings; The southern economic wing was encapsulated by the vaults and underwent both the reconstruction and the vaults of the main wing. Особita Smetana was due to the establishment of the first octárna in Moravia in 1797. In the 1930s, a sheepskin and an agricultural production area south of the chateau was established and a clock tower was built with a bell in the axis of the main courtyard.

In 1857 a large estate was purchased by Vladimír Mitrovský. In his possession, the chateau became more modern - already in 1859 his main building was adapted to the neo-classical form that he kept today. In 1877 Josephina d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, born Mitrovská (1852-1885), who lived here with husband Hubert, acquired the farm. The eastern facade was then supplemented by an attics with a family coat of arms and was built by a classicising family tomb along the road to Ořechov. After Josephine's death, the estate was inherited by Marie Ludmila's daughter, who married František Ferdinand Deym from Silver in 1902. The grandeur carried 560 hectares of land. Marie Ludmila was engaged in park modifications around the chateau and lived in Hayany until 1945.

The Czechoslovak State confiscated the property in 1948. The farm yard went under the State Farm Brno, the main building served as an office, both wings were insensitive adapted to the employees' apartments. Insufficient maintenance has led to gradual decay. Today the chateau has been protected as a cultural monument since 2026. The visitor will find here a living document of architectural changes, which accompanied the chateau from Baroque to Classicism until later, and proof of the rich history of the Moravian nobles bound to this landscape.