Trebesice Castle

Trebesice Castle - Zámek Třebešice, Trebesice, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic.

According to the parish chronicle, the Třebešice stronghold stood in the 13th century in the area now known as "V ohradách" (In the Enclosures); another stronghold, Debrník, stood on a hill opposite it; and the Church of All Saints—whose circular Romanesque apse attests to its great age—stood nearby.
The founders were Valkoun, Jan, and Jaroslav—members of the lower nobility (*vladykas*) settled at Třebešice. During the Hussite era, the local inhabitants embraced the cause of the Chalice. In the mid-15th century, the local knight Valkoun of Třebešice, accompanied by his men-at-arms, assisted George of Poděbrady in the campaign to capture Prague.
However, the local family line soon died out; consequently, in 1544, the knight Václav Záhora of Záhoří had his inheritance entered into the newly restored Land Rolls. This inheritance comprised the Třebešice stronghold, a manorial farmstead, and the village itself, along with two peasant farmsteads and the right of church patronage in Debrník. Around this time, the Záhora family abandoned the old stronghold in Debrník and built a new residence closer to the church. They named both the church and the manor house "Třebešice," and the name "Debrník" fell into oblivion.
A record from 1599 documents the purchase of the estate by the knight Václav Věžník of Věžník. In 1651, the Věžník family sold Třebešice to the knight Tomáš Sohier of Windmühle. In 1704, the manor house was acquired by Countess Judita Alžběta of Götz, the wife of Count Jan Maxmilián of Götz. In 1752, Maria Barbara von Roggendorf (née von Götz) sold the chateau to the Emmaus Monastery in Prague.
The monastery owned the chateau until 1924, when it was purchased by Mr. František Šesták. Following the forced eviction of the Šesták family in the 1950s, the chateau was used by a Unified Agricultural Cooperative (JZD).