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The garden which adjoins the chateau building was documented already in 1604 in inheritance procedure of departed Jeronym Hrobcicky of Hrobcice. It was probably built during the reconstruction of the old fortress into a Renaissance chateau under the Hrobcickys. In the period before the White Mountain Battle, family seats were brought up to date and gardens were built. The main demand was not defence any more, but comfort.
After the fire in 1712, obviously the buildings were renovated first, and then the garden. Typical High Baroque garden design was used – distinctive central line leading from the entrance archway in the southern chateau frontage towards the brew-house centre featured with a baroque gateway. Two cross-wind axes were formed by a garden gate from the carriage-shed and a basin in the flower garden and with the carriage-shed and an orangery built probably in 1734.
In the beginning of 19th century, the park situated southwards of Manetin brook was patterned in English landscape design. A small pond with its own flume was built as well as a hermitage and a pavillon on an artificial hill. The ornamental garden with baroque components remained in existence as a standalone complex.
After 1945 the park was devastated, e.g. the large oval basin in the garden centre was landed up. In 1990s, a partial reconstruction of its baroque style was started, generally according to the 1790 condition. Former chateau occupants’ fences and sheds were gradually removed, some trees and shrubs marked in dendrology survey as unvalued were cut down, and the oval basin in the centre of the garden was done out.
