Újezd nade Mží Chateau

The castle in Újezdě nade Mží stands in the municipality of the same name in the Plzeň-sever district. It was created approximately in the middle of the seventeenth century. The entire castle complex, including administrative and farm buildings, is protected as a cultural monument.

The castle was preceded by a fortified manor. It belonged to Jošt Adam Širntyngar of Širntyngu, who had it confiscated along with the estate for his participation in the Estates' Revolt. The first written mention of the fortified manor dates from sixteen twenty-three. At that time, Severin Táhlo of Horštejna bought the estate for nine thousand four hundred thirty-seven kopecks of Meissen groshes. After him, the property was inherited by his daughter Kateřina, who was married to Jan Jindřich of Bedeberka. He was the mayor of Plzeň and in sixteen fifty he sold the estate to Theofil Kleo of Roudná. It was probably around that time that a Baroque castle was built on the site of the previously burned-down fortified manor.

Theofil Kleo died in sixteen sixty-six. His heirs could not agree on how to divide the property, so the regional court decided that it should be sold. The estate, which consisted of a single village, was bought in sixteen seventy-three by Maria Steinbachová of Kranichštejna. It belonged to her descendants until seventeen twenty-three, when Karel Maxmilián Vilém Steinbach had to sell it due to debts. In seventeen twenty-five, the estate was owned by Karel of Schönau, followed by František Josef Kölisch and Judita Saidlrová of Wolfsfeldu. From seventeen ninety onwards it belonged to the Schirndingen family. Under Karel Schirndinger, the castle was rebuilt in the Classicist style in eighteen seventeen. According to August Sedláček, however, the castle only came into being in that year.

The castle is part of a farmyard on the southwestern edge of the village. From the older Renaissance fortified manor, only the cellars and part of the granary walls remained. To the west of the castle is a former garden, and in the south of the complex lies an unmaintained park. It is surrounded by a brick wall articulated by pillars, with a facade decorated with pilasters and lisenes.

The main building has a rectangular floor plan and one smaller side wing. The facade is articulated by corner rustication and double windows in surrounds. The ground floor is vaulted with a barrel vault, and the rooms on the first floor have flat ceilings. To the south is a two-story basement granary with a passage into the courtyard. To the right of the passage is a bricked-up segmental portal and further on another rectangular portal.

Opposite the castle stands an administrative building with a rectangular floor plan. Its facades are articulated by lisenes and two-winged windows, on the ground floor covered with flat cornices. The complex also includes two stables, two barns, a deputy's cottage, and a former greenhouse used as a horse stable.