zámek Nové Zámky (Nesovice) Chateau

Nové Zámky, originally called Nový Zámek, is a Renaissance castle on the eastern edge of the village of Nesovice in the Vyškov region. It stands on a gentle promontory above the valley of the Litava River. It is a two-winged single-story building in the style of Italian Renaissance and at the same time an unfinished torso. Today it is protected as a cultural monument.

The castle was built by knight Záviš z Víckovic as a new building on a hilltop east of the village. An unknown Italian architect worked out the project. According to an inscription above the entrance gate, construction began on April twenty-first, fifteen sixty-one. Originally, it was apparently meant to become a symmetrical three-winged building with a courtyard that would be closed on the southern side by a wall. However, by fifteen seventy-one, only half of the main northern wing had been built, along with an eastern wing running perpendicular to it. Záviš died in fifteen sixty-nine, and his successor Přemek sold the castle in fifteen seventy-five to Jindřích and Zikmund ze Zástřižl. The building therefore remained unfinished. By the end of the sixteenth century, a stone courtyard arcade was apparently added, which replaced the previous temporary structure. According to Wolný, a private chapel was established in sixteen sixty-five, and allegedly in the eighteen eighties, a fortification wall surrounded the castle.

The castle changed hands frequently. In seventeen fifty, it was acquired by Josef Leopold Petrasch, an Olomouc revivalist, who held classical games there. In seventeen ninety-eight, Alois Josef from Lichtenštejn bought the estate and attached it to the Bučovice domain. The castle thus ceased to serve as a manor seat and began to deteriorate. After the war, it fell to the state and served as a poultry house and granary. In the seventies, the Regional Monument Centre in Brno took over the devastated building. At that time, a nature landscape park was created around the castle, and in the eighties, the facades and interiors were partially repaired. In two thousand two, the castle was returned through restitution to the Floriánov family. They sold it to a Brno entrepreneur Tomáš Novotný, who began a gradual reconstruction.

The building resembles an Italian castle. It is single-winged and topped by a high attic half-story. The western end of the northern wing is closed by a prismatic entrance tower, which was originally supposed to be the axis of the entire façade. The corners of the tower and the eastern wing are outlined by cylindrical bartizans. The walls are finished with crenellations in the shape of swallow tails, and the windows have stone jambs. A two-story arcade faces the courtyard—on the ground floor formed by arcades, and on the upper floor covered by a sloping roof on beams. The rooms on the ground floor have barrel vaults, while on the upper floor they have flat beam ceilings. The altar space of the chapel in the southeastern bartisan is vaulted with a flat vault.