Kravaře Chateau

Coincidence can lead to anything. Michal Sendivoj, an impoverished Polish nobleman and alchemist at the court of Emperor Rudolf II, came by chance to the Kravaře Chateau.

Emperor Ferdinand II gave him the Kravaře Chateau and thus solved two problems at once – he got rid of the debts the Habsburgs owed Sendivoj for his services and found a new master for the Kravaře estate, which he had previously confiscated.

This was the beginning of the chateau’s development into what we know today. It was not taken care of by Sendivoj himself, but by the husband of his daughter, who married the Brandenburg nobleman Jacob Eichendorff. This family brought the chateau to its present splendid appearance until it had to be sold due to debts.

Today, the chateau belongs to the town of Kravaře, which has its own representative premises there. Visitors to the chateau admire the works of Baroque architects, and the most historically valuable is the interior of the chateau chapel, which was spared a fire in 1937. The chapel’s ceiling painting from 1730, which depicts the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is breathtaking.

During the tour of the chateau, you will also visit the laboratory of the alchemist Michal Sendivoy, get acquainted with the life of the Eichendorff family, get an idea of what life was like for “ordinary” people in Kravaře and the Hlučín region, and the latest exhibition There is Prehistory at the Door will bring you closer to the life of people in this area in the later Bronze Age on the basis of archaeological excavations.

The chateau is surrounded by a beautiful park with hundreds of different trees and shrubs. Today, the chateau garden is a popular golf course.