Nový zámek Batelov Chateau

Nový zámek Batelov stands in the city Batelov in the immediate vicinity of the Old Chateau and is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. Here we are located in places with deep historical roots, whose foundations reach into the Middle Ages.

The beginnings of the Batelova settlement were tied to the old fortress of the masters of Batelova, which stood on the high above the creek, southwest of today's church. Around 1400, a new fortress was built at the left bank of the Jihlava River, which was probably intended to guard the transition through this water flow. Due to the proximity of the two buildings, it is now not quite clear where the original fort stood, although it is assumed that it was rebuilt in the Old Chateau. The fortress gradually changed its owners - owned by the people of Lipé, then Pacovský, Batelov from Plato and Mikuláš Radkovec z Mirovic. From the mid-16th century to the beginning of the 17th century, the manor belonged to the Chekov Manor of Chekov.

The fundamental twist occurred in 1586, when Jiří Čížovský z Čížova chemiл fortress was rebuilt into Renaissance chateau - today's Old Chateau. There was a new building next to it, which was so innovative for the time that the estate was given a new name - New Batelov. After 1626, when the Krabics of Weitmile took the estate, the buildings gradually went through further reconstructions. Around 1681, under Odkolky from Újezce, the chateau receives Baroque form with the creation of a new, longer wing. A number of years later, in 1731, he buys the manor Jan Kryštof Burkhardt de Klee, which after 1755 will start building a large church and in the same year he will reconstruct and expand the chateau in a classical style - the resemblance has been preserved to its essence. In 1806, the chateau was sold at auction to Count Jan Swéerts- Sporck, under which it undergoes minor building modifications. Since 1839 it was owned by Blankensteinové, under which the chateau was remodernised in 1893. The latest modifications are from the second half of the 20th century, when insensitive reconstruction occurred. In the 1980s, a vocational training centre was established in the chateau.

The building is a two-storey two-wing building around which the remains of the chateau park created in the 19th century were preserved. From the Renaissance era, a ground-floor arched hall with a Renaissance portal was preserved, the coats of arms of Jiří Čežovský from Čežov with the year 1586 and Wilhelm Oldřich Odkolka from Úříce are placed at the entrance. On the ground floor are visible rolled vaults. The original fort was supposed to be at the site of today's west wing.

The chateau is only accessible from the outside - it is not open to the public for tours. There is a road II / 134 around the building, which is not far from road II / 639. The area can be reached on a green marked tourist path from the Batelov Square of Peace to the Tesenov or the Greenway Crafts Cycling and Confessions leading from Bezdečín to Lovetín.